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| The former Facebook employee develops a social home network |
A new set of social media apps tries to capitalize on the great interest in social media to provide users with alternatives to websites like Facebook in terms of scope and privacy, including Cocoon, a message focused on a privacy delivery system that describes the company as a social platform, not as a social network, but As a private space for those who you think are closest to your family.
With social media giants like Facebook obsessed with fake news and data security issues, some users have chosen to create smaller platforms that prioritize privacy-oriented messages, and former Facebook employees Sachin Monga and Alex Cornell Cocoon began to develop after they discovered that important connections on the very popular platform had been lost And she was working together.
Cocoon is currently free, but the founders say they will switch to a subscription model in the near future instead of selling user data, while Cocoon app founders trust the differences in privacy and data traffic protection between Cocoon and other apps like the biggest selling point to attract users. Willingness to pay for services.
"We will never share or sell your information to anyone. AlexCornel said: What we are losing is only the actual space in the home. Although the network is good in several ways, but over time it gets worse." "To deal with our relationship.
According to a 2018 Pew Research study, users can access privacy features through Snapchat, Baseball, Messenger and WhatsApp, but only half of Facebook users say they have changed their privacy settings.
While Facebook remains the most popular social media platform, privacy concerns have increased users' concerns. According to a recent survey by NBC and Wall Street Journal, more than 60% of users do not trust Facebook data and exceed 80%. Social media platforms waste time.
Small home web apps (like Live360, Cohort, and Cluster) are becoming more popular, but their size has shrunk by about 2.5 billion users on Facebook, and experts are finding it difficult for social media companies to reach out to the public that they're dealing with things like Facebook and it's hard to control the market in this regard And encourage people to use their new applications.