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Path just evolved with an entirely revamped product

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I've always felt that I'd love to use Path if any of my non-tech friends used it.

But I reaally don't feel like trying to explain to everyone I know why its different/better than just posting everything on facebook. And I'm normally the one convincing them to use the latest tech.

I'm a techie and I don't know why it's different/better than just posting everything on facebook.

I used the app for 5 minutes and I could write a thousand words on why it's better already. Honestly, if you can't see the differences, the quality compared to facebook, the difference in attitudes towards privacy, I don't think you can be helped.

This can work. Just based on the 150 friend cap. You are in a way forced to choose your most active, friends. Those that you actually engage with via in person, email, Facebook messages, Skype etc., on a daily basis.

There was an article floating around somewhere on the concept of having an application with only 7 or so friends and how would a user deal with this restriction. Path is in the right direction for this. Also as opposed to Facebook, since a normal user does not have "Life Events" every day, I like the fact that Path has the awake/sleep feature (no matter how trivial it sounds).

"In a novel feature for the life-sharing apps, the new Path will also automatically post your location (“Arrived”) every time you travel a distance far enough to be reached by plane." Path is the first? Really?

Another Social app? Even the most interesting, narcissistic person in the world doesn't have this much to share.

Is this what it's about? Narcissism? Are we all so vain?

I'm guessing you have no idea what Path is. It's for sharing with close friends or family. Family, in general, is interested in knowing what's up with other members. That isn't narcissism. This isn't facebook. Please stop with this whole narcissism crap when one, you don't understand the app, and two, you're on a website SHARING your opinion.

Fair enough. Let me try and understand this. Facebook is a social network for sharing with close friends or family. Path, on the other hand, is a social network for sharing with close friends or family.

Understood.

Addendum: I hope Path finds it's "path" to success. I sincerely do. I just don't think it has enough differentiation in the social media space.

Personal metrics apps (i.e. Daytum) suck. I think Path is moving to fill this void. Auto-recording of location, sleeping habits & making it easy to record memories across networks are killer features. Not to mention that it looks great.

Tumblr took off because they took the content-creation out of blogging. Path works because it lets me keep a great journal without writing.

Anyone here using Path a lot?

I wonder in a world with Facebook domination, if there is room for an app like Path. But if your FB stream gets flooded with low-quality posts and activity from tons of people, then people might want to gravitate toward something with higher quality posts from the people they care the most for. But not sure.

Whatever about the merits of the product the Path team have made an incredibly beautiful user interface. Kudos to the team.

yawn!

what happened to TechCrunch's website? It's completely crashing on the iPad. It loads fine, then comes an avalanche of ads and stuff that slow it to a crawl until it quits.

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