Path picture expressing network focuses on smaller groups

iPhone users can share photos with their friends with a brand new social network called Path. However, Path isn’t really your typical social networking. The photo sharing site limits user accounts to just fifty buddies. The buddy restricts imposed by Path will hinder its widespread adoption, according to some industry analysts, but you will find other who welcome the introduction of a social networking with built-in restraint.

iPhone app Path restricts to 50 friends with sharing

There is a new iPhone app that is a social networking service called Path. It is unlike all the other Facebook wannabe websites in that only fifty buddies are allowed at the most to be on there. It also wants the Path iPhone posts to be private while on there. Path knows that there has been lots of problems with the Facebook privateness which is the reason why they think that having less friends could be more attractive than Facebook and Twitter policies of using a ton of friends. Business Insider accounts that there’s a majority of individuals, primarily those over 30, who do not like to be prodded by Facebook and Twitter to spread their personal data like a virus.

50 friends on Path

A fifty buddy limit is what Path utilizes for making it different than every person else. Oxford Professor of Evolutionary Psychology Robin Dunbar said, according to previous Facebook executive Dave Morin in a blog introducing Path, “150 is the maximum number of social relationships the human brain can sustain at any given time." Personal relationships are what Dunbar suggests are very valuable. He also claims that there are just 50 individuals a person can really trust and consider valuable. Thus, Path lets users feel more comfortable about being personal than Facebook or Twitter.

Did Path have a poor choice?

Path is a social network dead end, based on Om Malik at Gigacom. Malik writes that Facebook already allows users to control their number of buddies. Path is intended all for smartphones and iPhones which he points out most of his fifty buddies he'd want on there don't have. There are rivals of Path. They’re Picplz, Instagr.am and DailyBooth. They have all done well. There was a ton of cash made from it. But money can’t buy you friends.

Articles cited

CNN

cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/11/15/path.photo/index.html

Business Insider

businessinsider.com/sorry-digerati-path-may-have-a-hit-on-their-hands-2010-11

Gigacom

gigaom.com/2010/11/15/path/