CircleMe: Social News & Chat 12+

This is social 2.0

CircleMe is the first social network that I find truly innovative and enjoyable. The App's concept has a ton of genuine potential, and I can see why it's catching on with a lot of users. I personally love it. The design and UX are equally impressive, and I couldn't be happier after my first download. Looking forward to see how it grows. Try it out, you'll see what I mean. A+

Can’t post

So I thought this would be a way to share news articles and posts like maybe a better version of Pinterest. But apparently not—I am limited to what shows up in my feed from the developers. They suggest I “trust” people but all I can see is their picture and their “likes.” Since there are so few topics to choose from, everyone seems to like everything, so what is the point of trusting/following someone? I only see two new posts since yesterday. And one of them has a really gross picture of parasites that I’d rather not see again so I’d prefer to delete it but I don’t appear to have that option. Very disappointing to put all this effort in developing an app that has such little usability.

Developer Response ,

Dear WendySnap, we are sorry to read about your disappointment. Your feedback is useful and we will learn from them to improve the app in the future versions. To help a bit though, we can suggest a couple of things: (1) you are able to post your own article by clicking on the '+' icon on the bottom right of the screen in the Main Feed (if you do that, you will see some options and the one you are looking for is "Start a Conversation") - sorry for the confusion this might have caused; (2) regarding the few posts that you see, perhaps it is because you do not Like (or To-Do) enough interests that we have content for - try to SEARCH for something/someone you Like and once you do some new Likes, check on the Main Feed: we are confident you will see much more content appearing.
Hope this helps. In the meantime though we will pass your feedback to the rest of the product team to make sure we work on better versions of the app. Thanks so much for providing such feedback!

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OK I'm not trying to shoot the app down. It is nicely made, neat interface and cool concept.
But I find the UX to be confusing and the content is so broad and mixed to the point that I don't see any usefulness out of using the app. Don't get me wrong I like innovative social apps and I try to use apps like Stamped, Oink. Or more focused social network apps like Path or the new Everyme app.
And I have to say I really wanted to like this app, but every time I try to use it I find it badly overwhelming. Comments (views), Likes, ToDo on random stuff kinda confusing.

The core idea of planting stuff based on location is solid though. So I will be interested if the app got refined or even better took a different, more focused, path.

At the end, I can't recommend the app just yet. However, it might be your thing.

3 stars for good idea built into a beautiful designed app.