Social & InDesign

Social Networks

For this week, we were tasked with joining a new social network that we hadn't been a part of already, so we can explore and discover something new. I had initially been planning on doing Pinterest, but then got an email invitation from a friend for a new one: Thingser!

My email that greeted me earlier this week.

This is a new social network that is in the invitation-stage (hint hint) that seems very much like Tumblr and Pinterest. When you first start, Thingser asks you Categories (topics) you are interested in -- which you can go back and edit -- and those will be the collections of posts that you can view in your dashboard.
You can also invite your friends to the service, and follow their collections of posts they've pinned or created themselves.

Category dash list

You can search by category or by search phrases:

Create a post

Interestingly, the way to create a new post is in the top dashboard. It allows you to select the category and type of post without an additional dialog box.

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