Ello

Let’s review the timeline, shall we?

Ello launched as a social network that promised to never sell add space, and to never sell your personal information, but no one on Earth noticed.

Then in September it was suddenly and without warning all the rage, thanks in part to Facebook being a dick about forcing people to use their real names on their profiles. Suddenly everyone and their Uncle is clamoring for an invite. Being the social media content whore that I am, I too put in for an invite… from multiple email addresses. I figured I’d have to wait a few days, maybe even a week.

Time wears on and I, like everyone else on the internet, lose interest and can no longer spare even the slightest thought toward this new platform that very much reminds me of tumblr.

Fast-forward to sometime after midnight last night/this morning and BOOM, there is my ello invite. Oh good, just what I really didn’t want anymore and had more or less forgotten about. But still… we are talking about me, a self professed social media content whore, so I accepted the invite and created an account. I also sent an invite over to my brilliant, charming, angel of a wife and she signed up too.

Here’s a link to my new ello page. Obviously you are all very excited about this. Yet another place for me to dump camera phone pictures! WOOHOO!

Now they just need an actual mobile app because their mobile site is a little clunky. Well, let’s be honest, the actual web site is really clunky, the mobile version is even clunkier. So here’s to an iOS app, and maybe the ability to post music via direct links (ie, alonetone) and not just through soundcloud (booo!). Maybe I’ll start an account for the band too. I can put anything I want on there and be safe because no one is ever going to see it because as a social network, ello is probably already dead!