So I'm late to the party March 16, 2015 1:41 PM Subscribe
Are any of you still using Ello?
If not, where've you all gone? Where do I go to find Mefites away from MeFi?
I switched over to David Gilmour's new gesture-based social media startup, elloelloelloisthereanybodyinthe.re; you just nod if you can hear someone so they can tell if anyone is home.
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:45 PM on March 16, 2015 [85 favorites]
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:45 PM on March 16, 2015 [85 favorites]
Where do I go to find Mefites away from MeFi?
You could start with the Social Explorer.
posted by pb (staff) at 1:46 PM on March 16, 2015 [6 favorites]
You could start with the Social Explorer.
posted by pb (staff) at 1:46 PM on March 16, 2015 [6 favorites]
IRL, IIRC.
posted by GenjiandProust at 2:02 PM on March 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by GenjiandProust at 2:02 PM on March 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
Man, Roger Waters is gonna be pissed.
posted by cgc373 at 2:10 PM on March 16, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by cgc373 at 2:10 PM on March 16, 2015 [5 favorites]
I can be encountered on level nine of the Tower of Vicissitude. I have 2495 hit points and am +5 against fire, dropping a random rare crystal when defeated.
posted by selfnoise at 2:11 PM on March 16, 2015 [15 favorites]
posted by selfnoise at 2:11 PM on March 16, 2015 [15 favorites]
You could start with the Social Explorer.
Looks like my best bet is Twitter.
posted by Omnomnom at 2:19 PM on March 16, 2015 [2 favorites]
Looks like my best bet is Twitter.
posted by Omnomnom at 2:19 PM on March 16, 2015 [2 favorites]
Just remember to disable the widget on your profile page.
posted by Elementary Penguin at 2:22 PM on March 16, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Elementary Penguin at 2:22 PM on March 16, 2015 [2 favorites]
What widget?
posted by Omnomnom at 2:25 PM on March 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Omnomnom at 2:25 PM on March 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
Omnomnom: "What widget?"
Don't worry about it.
posted by Malory Archer at 2:28 PM on March 16, 2015 [11 favorites]
Don't worry about it.
posted by Malory Archer at 2:28 PM on March 16, 2015 [11 favorites]
so! thanks to pb's link, i'm now following the mefite mlkshkrs, but! so many have you haven't posted in more than a year! come back! we miss you!
posted by nadawi at 2:41 PM on March 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by nadawi at 2:41 PM on March 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
i made an ello account ages ago but have not been back. is it fun? i hear they banned gamergate and i thought that was encouraging
posted by NoraReed at 2:43 PM on March 16, 2015
posted by NoraReed at 2:43 PM on March 16, 2015
and I thought everybody was on tilde dot club, the metafilter it's ok to like ™
posted by boo_radley at 2:50 PM on March 16, 2015 [9 favorites]
posted by boo_radley at 2:50 PM on March 16, 2015 [9 favorites]
Where do I go to find Mefites away from MeFi?
Are they still Mefites once they're away from MeFi?
posted by xqwzts at 3:40 PM on March 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
Are they still Mefites once they're away from MeFi?
posted by xqwzts at 3:40 PM on March 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
I'm all over MLKSHK. Does anyone else use This? (hit me up via email if you want/need invites)
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 3:57 PM on March 16, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 3:57 PM on March 16, 2015 [4 favorites]
ello is it me you're looking for
posted by klangklangston at 4:26 PM on March 16, 2015 [20 favorites]
posted by klangklangston at 4:26 PM on March 16, 2015 [20 favorites]
klangklangston: "ello is it me you're looking for"
you ran in here to do that, didn't you
posted by boo_radley at 4:28 PM on March 16, 2015 [15 favorites]
you ran in here to do that, didn't you
posted by boo_radley at 4:28 PM on March 16, 2015 [15 favorites]
Ello? What? Is this real life?
I'm so out of it.
posted by Justinian at 6:14 PM on March 16 [+] [!]
In your defense, Ello was "important" for only slightly longer than the escaped therapy llamas.
posted by Elementary Penguin at 4:34 PM on March 16, 2015 [18 favorites]
I'm so out of it.
posted by Justinian at 6:14 PM on March 16 [+] [!]
In your defense, Ello was "important" for only slightly longer than the escaped therapy llamas.
posted by Elementary Penguin at 4:34 PM on March 16, 2015 [18 favorites]
You could start with the Social Explorer.
Oooooh, I'm going on a Facebook friending spree!
posted by Jacqueline at 4:36 PM on March 16, 2015
Oooooh, I'm going on a Facebook friending spree!
posted by Jacqueline at 4:36 PM on March 16, 2015
I've never seen a place turn into a ghost-town faster than ello. I glance at it every once in a while but it's pretty quiet.
I follow about 60 mefites on The Twitters although only about twenty of those are active tweeters.
posted by octothorpe at 4:42 PM on March 16, 2015
I follow about 60 mefites on The Twitters although only about twenty of those are active tweeters.
posted by octothorpe at 4:42 PM on March 16, 2015
I've never seen a place turn into a ghost-town faster than ello. I glance at it every once in a while but it's pretty quiet.
Ello is a lesson in how not to launch a project. The most important features weren't available when then opened invitations, and people realized it, and stopped participating. Since then the features have been added, but people haven't bothered to return.
It has some possibilities, but I doubt it will gain traction. But I still check in every once in a while to see what's up, and hope. Anything is better than Facebook.
posted by terrapin at 4:49 PM on March 16, 2015 [4 favorites]
Ello is a lesson in how not to launch a project. The most important features weren't available when then opened invitations, and people realized it, and stopped participating. Since then the features have been added, but people haven't bothered to return.
It has some possibilities, but I doubt it will gain traction. But I still check in every once in a while to see what's up, and hope. Anything is better than Facebook.
posted by terrapin at 4:49 PM on March 16, 2015 [4 favorites]
Am I the only one getting a ridiculously intense cocaine vibe off the whole ello project? The huge grandiose plans built on a platform that is basically a really rough proof-of-concept retread of well-worn territory, the constant switching of focus to the next shiny distraction, the inexplicable ability to bluster their way into getting people to believe that they're going into serious competition with Facebook ... they're coked to the gills, right?
posted by contraption at 4:54 PM on March 16, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by contraption at 4:54 PM on March 16, 2015 [6 favorites]
ELO?
basically I just wanted to post that incredibly trippy video
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 5:01 PM on March 16, 2015
basically I just wanted to post that incredibly trippy video
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 5:01 PM on March 16, 2015
Anything is better than Facebook. **coff**Myspace**coff**
posted by edgeways at 5:04 PM on March 16, 2015
posted by edgeways at 5:04 PM on March 16, 2015
I have a hunch you'll find some on eBay [why is there no emoji banjo!!!!!].
posted by unliteral at 5:16 PM on March 16, 2015
posted by unliteral at 5:16 PM on March 16, 2015
I forgot ello existed.
posted by sarcasticah at 5:18 PM on March 16, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by sarcasticah at 5:18 PM on March 16, 2015 [6 favorites]
I don't know, but ello.horse takes you to a western wear outfitter.
But, tbh, when I first read this and saw, "Any of you still using ello?" I thought you were talking to us fatties still eating Elio's pizza. Well, answering for a friend, "yes".
posted by 724A at 5:31 PM on March 16, 2015 [2 favorites]
But, tbh, when I first read this and saw, "Any of you still using ello?" I thought you were talking to us fatties still eating Elio's pizza. Well, answering for a friend, "yes".
posted by 724A at 5:31 PM on March 16, 2015 [2 favorites]
I'm still uncertain about This, but I'm here and looking for friends. I get the feeling it's something that will only make sense if I can follow enough people that it becomes an exciting place to discover and share things. (Alas, I have no invites.)
posted by naju at 5:37 PM on March 16, 2015
posted by naju at 5:37 PM on March 16, 2015
I've never seen a place turn into a ghost-town faster than ello.
Ello: google plus, but more efficient.
posted by pompomtom at 5:40 PM on March 16, 2015 [15 favorites]
Ello: google plus, but more efficient.
posted by pompomtom at 5:40 PM on March 16, 2015 [15 favorites]
Since then the features have been added, but people haven't bothered to return.
Ello, I must be going.
I switched over to David Gilmour's new gesture-based social media startup, elloelloelloisthereanybodyinthe.re
Oh if only he'd chosen a tech career in real life.
posted by octobersurprise at 6:39 PM on March 16, 2015
Ello, I must be going.
I switched over to David Gilmour's new gesture-based social media startup, elloelloelloisthereanybodyinthe.re
Oh if only he'd chosen a tech career in real life.
posted by octobersurprise at 6:39 PM on March 16, 2015
Ello is a lesson in how not to launch a project.
They're also like Cook's Illustrated in that they trade off of their Vermontiness without having any noticeable actual connection to Vermont except that the guy who started it lives here and NYC and runs a bicycle shop here.
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 7:08 PM on March 16, 2015 [12 favorites]
They're also like Cook's Illustrated in that they trade off of their Vermontiness without having any noticeable actual connection to Vermont except that the guy who started it lives here and NYC and runs a bicycle shop here.
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 7:08 PM on March 16, 2015 [12 favorites]
I forgot ello existed.
I would have too, except they keep emailing me "Hey! Ello still exists! We've got some new features! And even some content! COME BACK PLEASE!"
posted by russm at 8:04 PM on March 16, 2015 [5 favorites]
I would have too, except they keep emailing me "Hey! Ello still exists! We've got some new features! And even some content! COME BACK PLEASE!"
posted by russm at 8:04 PM on March 16, 2015 [5 favorites]
jessamyn: "
They're also like Cook's Illustrated in that they trade off of their Vermontiness without having any noticeable actual connection to Vermont except that the guy who started it lives here and NYC and runs a bicycle shop here."
But he's got stories about hunting!
I briefly thought of you as "Metafilter's Chris Kimbal" until a vermonter told me that might lead to Assertive Corrections of a Wrongness.
posted by boo_radley at 8:05 PM on March 16, 2015 [6 favorites]
They're also like Cook's Illustrated in that they trade off of their Vermontiness without having any noticeable actual connection to Vermont except that the guy who started it lives here and NYC and runs a bicycle shop here."
But he's got stories about hunting!
I briefly thought of you as "Metafilter's Chris Kimbal" until a vermonter told me that might lead to Assertive Corrections of a Wrongness.
posted by boo_radley at 8:05 PM on March 16, 2015 [6 favorites]
Jack is the real brains in that outfit.
O' he had a farm E-I-E...boo:)
posted by clavdivs at 8:15 PM on March 16, 2015
O' he had a farm E-I-E...boo:)
posted by clavdivs at 8:15 PM on March 16, 2015
Bridget controls them all.
posted by clavdivs at 8:19 PM on March 16, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by clavdivs at 8:19 PM on March 16, 2015 [6 favorites]
In all fairness, I love Christopher Kimball's bike shop.
But he's got stories about hunting!
I was just thinking about this (probably because of recent podcast). You can tell he just adores being able to say "I hunt." It means a lot to him.
posted by Miko at 8:42 PM on March 16, 2015
But he's got stories about hunting!
I was just thinking about this (probably because of recent podcast). You can tell he just adores being able to say "I hunt." It means a lot to him.
posted by Miko at 8:42 PM on March 16, 2015
I'm out of This invites but I think cortex may have some.
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 9:02 PM on March 16, 2015
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 9:02 PM on March 16, 2015
I'm mostly on my blog and Flickr. I tried Ello, but I mostly fail at social media; I'm more longform.
posted by Deoridhe at 9:12 PM on March 16, 2015
posted by Deoridhe at 9:12 PM on March 16, 2015
Yo me
posted by miyabo at 9:26 PM on March 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by miyabo at 9:26 PM on March 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
Christopher Kimball has a goddamn Maserati, so remember that when he tries to get all folksy on you.
(I'm on Ello as well but haven't posted a thing because I suck.)
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 10:32 PM on March 16, 2015 [3 favorites]
(I'm on Ello as well but haven't posted a thing because I suck.)
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 10:32 PM on March 16, 2015 [3 favorites]
potsmokinghippieoverlord: "Christopher Kimball has a goddamn Maserati"
What?!
posted by boo_radley at 11:19 PM on March 16, 2015 [3 favorites]
What?!
posted by boo_radley at 11:19 PM on March 16, 2015 [3 favorites]
I would have too, except they keep emailing me "Hey! Ello still exists! We've got some new features! And even some content! COME BACK PLEASE!"
This 1000 times. I'm all like "can't you see I'm all slow fading on you, Ello? No? More 'curated' recommendations of partnered t-shirt designs? Guess I'm fast fading now."
posted by robocop is bleeding at 6:01 AM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
This 1000 times. I'm all like "can't you see I'm all slow fading on you, Ello? No? More 'curated' recommendations of partnered t-shirt designs? Guess I'm fast fading now."
posted by robocop is bleeding at 6:01 AM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
What I really want is a good, non-addictive social media platform where I can find cool stuff and not actually talk to people I don't like.
So what I really want is Google Reader.
But those maniacs blew it up! Damn it! Damn it all to hell!
posted by anotherpanacea at 6:33 AM on March 17, 2015 [9 favorites]
So what I really want is Google Reader.
But those maniacs blew it up! Damn it! Damn it all to hell!
posted by anotherpanacea at 6:33 AM on March 17, 2015 [9 favorites]
I expected more MeFites on Untappd, as one thing we should be good at is gamifying our alcoholism, but so far am disappoint.
posted by MartinWisse at 6:51 AM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by MartinWisse at 6:51 AM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
meet me on board the gondola. i'll be wearing a smock.
posted by quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon at 6:54 AM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon at 6:54 AM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
If anyone that's one This has an invite I would take one. I need more social media site I don't use.
posted by cjorgensen at 7:12 AM on March 17, 2015
posted by cjorgensen at 7:12 AM on March 17, 2015
I expected more MeFites on Untappd, as one thing we should be good at is gamifying our alcoholism, but so far am disappoint.
I know a bunch of people both on and off mefi who use that app. The frequent autoupdates it makes to other social media accounts can sometimes give the impression that its users are serious alcoholics. There's nothing like having to answer private messages from concerned family members which say, "Have you been reading your cousin's tweets? I didn't realize what a terrible drinking problem she has!"
posted by zarq at 7:20 AM on March 17, 2015 [5 favorites]
I know a bunch of people both on and off mefi who use that app. The frequent autoupdates it makes to other social media accounts can sometimes give the impression that its users are serious alcoholics. There's nothing like having to answer private messages from concerned family members which say, "Have you been reading your cousin's tweets? I didn't realize what a terrible drinking problem she has!"
posted by zarq at 7:20 AM on March 17, 2015 [5 favorites]
I have a handful of This invites, I'll give them out on the condition that you actually use This. I've given a bunch out to folks that sign up and never post anything, which is sort of annoying. I like having new things to read!!!
posted by everybody had matching towels at 7:20 AM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by everybody had matching towels at 7:20 AM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
they trade off of their Vermontiness without having any noticeable actual connection to Vermont except that the guy who started it lives here and NYC and runs a bicycle shop here.
I want to marry this phrase. I just want that on record.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:50 AM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
I want to marry this phrase. I just want that on record.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:50 AM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
Is anyone using Slack? im still trying to figure that thing out, too.
posted by rebent at 7:54 AM on March 17, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by rebent at 7:54 AM on March 17, 2015 [3 favorites]
I thought we all just hung out in random virtual spaces and encountered each other haphazardly on Twitter?
posted by Sonny Jim at 8:07 AM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Sonny Jim at 8:07 AM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
Finally gave in and updated my MetaFilter profile to include twitter and MLKSHK and whatever else but just couldn't bring myself to list Ello. I was deep into the Ello invite feeding frenzy thread and added a thousand mefites and then my feed there went out with something that makes a whimper look like a bang. "Fizzled" seems like too energetic a term for the way the activity there disappeared.
posted by komara at 8:38 AM on March 17, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by komara at 8:38 AM on March 17, 2015 [3 favorites]
Ello I love you, won't you tell me your name.
posted by jonmc at 8:46 AM on March 17, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by jonmc at 8:46 AM on March 17, 2015 [3 favorites]
Plz back my startup social network phoen.ix, the way it works is you get hyped and sign up and tell all your friends and dole out invites to those you deem worthy and enjoy the rush of getting in on something fresh and new and quasi-exclusive
Then it'll crash and burn and relaunch so you can do it all over again
Forming meaningful connections and curating a persistent online identity has been disrupted
Never live in a post-beta world again
Guaranteed not to last long enough for your mom to join
posted by prize bull octorok at 9:26 AM on March 17, 2015 [22 favorites]
Then it'll crash and burn and relaunch so you can do it all over again
Forming meaningful connections and curating a persistent online identity has been disrupted
Never live in a post-beta world again
Guaranteed not to last long enough for your mom to join
posted by prize bull octorok at 9:26 AM on March 17, 2015 [22 favorites]
You can find me at work, unfortunately.
posted by Devils Rancher at 10:06 AM on March 17, 2015
posted by Devils Rancher at 10:06 AM on March 17, 2015
I associate Cook's Illustrated with Newton and Wellesley.
posted by maryr at 10:49 AM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by maryr at 10:49 AM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
You can always find me in the kitchen at parties.
posted by MartinWisse at 12:00 PM on March 17, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by MartinWisse at 12:00 PM on March 17, 2015 [5 favorites]
I don't use untappd as much as I intend to. I am mandyman there. Be my beer friend?
posted by mandymanwasregistered at 12:00 PM on March 17, 2015
posted by mandymanwasregistered at 12:00 PM on March 17, 2015
They're also like Cook's Illustrated in that they trade off of their Vermontiness without having any noticeable actual connection to Vermont except that the guy who started it lives here and NYC and runs a bicycle shop here.
Apparently the bikes are just as overhyped.
posted by backseatpilot at 12:26 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
Apparently the bikes are just as overhyped.
posted by backseatpilot at 12:26 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
Cite for the Chris Kimball Maserati story. He also talks about this:
After the scare, the students needed to unwind. “There were Pygmies in this village,” Kimball recalled. “They were sitting on huge truck tires. I remember one night, we sat around a campfire and we got them high. We took out this huge joint, and everyone smoked dope and got high with a bunch of Pygmies in the Congo.”posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 2:20 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
> : Ello? What? Is this real life?
Is this just fantasy,
Caught in a landslide?
posted by Too-Ticky at 3:39 PM on March 17, 2015
Is this just fantasy,
Caught in a landslide?
posted by Too-Ticky at 3:39 PM on March 17, 2015
Easy come, easy go.
posted by maryr at 3:49 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by maryr at 3:49 PM on March 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
Budnitz makes a fatbike now?
And it costs eight large?
What's the target market, Siberian mob bosses who want to lose a little weight?
posted by box at 3:53 PM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
And it costs eight large?
What's the target market, Siberian mob bosses who want to lose a little weight?
posted by box at 3:53 PM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
Other Budnitzim.
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 5:34 PM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 5:34 PM on March 17, 2015 [2 favorites]
Where do I go to find Mefites away from MeFi?
The IRL tab?
posted by effbot at 6:15 PM on March 17, 2015
The IRL tab?
posted by effbot at 6:15 PM on March 17, 2015
> : Ello? What? Is this real life?
Is this just fantasy,
Caught in a landslide?
No escape from inanity...
posted by quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon at 8:12 AM on March 18, 2015
Is this just fantasy,
Caught in a landslide?
No escape from inanity...
posted by quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon at 8:12 AM on March 18, 2015
I finally got onto Ello as everyone else was leaving.
posted by Karmakaze at 9:03 AM on March 18, 2015
posted by Karmakaze at 9:03 AM on March 18, 2015
I'm on Diaspora*, on something called the "B" Ark pod. It's full of people who seem nice enough, hairdressers, insurance salesmen, folks like that, but they don't say anything.
posted by filthy light thief at 9:41 AM on March 18, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by filthy light thief at 9:41 AM on March 18, 2015 [7 favorites]
Wow, I've never heard of any of these.
Except Ello, which was a fun idea that wasn't ready and now it's dead.
posted by Mars Saxman at 3:34 PM on March 18, 2015
Except Ello, which was a fun idea that wasn't ready and now it's dead.
posted by Mars Saxman at 3:34 PM on March 18, 2015
Don't worry guys, I got This. NO LITERALLY LOL. Somehow I snagged the username "3" which is definitely a real username that someone can really have.
posted by threeants at 3:44 PM on March 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by threeants at 3:44 PM on March 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
Ello didn't even show up for Ello.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 3:48 PM on March 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by robocop is bleeding at 3:48 PM on March 18, 2015 [1 favorite]
I created a Facebook group for Ello users. I think we're up to two members.
posted by univac at 1:07 AM on March 19, 2015
posted by univac at 1:07 AM on March 19, 2015
That's as many people as I had in my Buick Brigade group back in college.
While those Honda and Toyota FB groups were vaguely popular, I thought "I really like my old person's car, which I actually got from old people (my grandparents -and now I realize my second car was also from an old person, but not my grandparents, but I digress-), I'll start a group with a catchy name, and I'll make a banner for the group!" So I did. I think the second member left after a few months, because he probably realized there wasn't anything happening.
posted by filthy light thief at 7:20 AM on March 19, 2015
While those Honda and Toyota FB groups were vaguely popular, I thought "I really like my old person's car, which I actually got from old people (my grandparents -and now I realize my second car was also from an old person, but not my grandparents, but I digress-), I'll start a group with a catchy name, and I'll make a banner for the group!" So I did. I think the second member left after a few months, because he probably realized there wasn't anything happening.
posted by filthy light thief at 7:20 AM on March 19, 2015
Ello didn't even show up for Ello.
Ello Pretends It’s Not Over With Video And Music Launch (January 2015)
posted by filthy light thief at 7:26 AM on March 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
I was all settled into my seat with a freshly cucumber-infused bottle of heavily branded water when they broke the bad news: Paul Budnitz, founder of Ello, was AWOL.That is amazing. The hype had died under a year (founded March 2014, didn't show up for SXSW in March 2015).
His South by Southwest session, "You Are Not A Product: The Ello Revolution," attracted a modest crowd of 60 or so. They'd filed into a drab Hyatt ballroom just south of Austin's town lake enthusiastically enough, poised to telegraph Budnitz's kernels of wisdom to the Twittersphere. Futurist and sci-fi author Bruce Sterling was in the back row, in fact.
But Budnitz never showed. And so we waited.
Ello Pretends It’s Not Over With Video And Music Launch (January 2015)
Already-forgotten, anti-Facebook social network Ello today launched the ability to share music and video clips in its feed, but that won’t matter.That's right, 10 months after launching, you can embed streaming media! How very modern of them.
posted by filthy light thief at 7:26 AM on March 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
they keep emailing me "Hey! Ello still exists! ... We'll let you post porn!"
Don't bring me doooooooooownnnnnn, bloop, bloop.
posted by tilde at 8:21 AM on March 19, 2015
Don't bring me doooooooooownnnnnn, bloop, bloop.
posted by tilde at 8:21 AM on March 19, 2015
I think I just saw a headline similar to "LOOK AT THIS MATRESS THAT'S DEBUTING AT SXSW". So maybe ditching your own SXSW presentation is the the new showing up for your own SXSW. I'd be tempted to bail if I had to compete with some Southern belle Serta hogging the limelight.
posted by boo_radley at 8:56 AM on March 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by boo_radley at 8:56 AM on March 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
Little-known fact: Pono is not just a music player, it's a social network. It never really took off, it's mostly just me and Neil Young on there. We play scrabble a lot
posted by oulipian at 9:01 AM on March 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by oulipian at 9:01 AM on March 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
Be my beer friend?
Done. I'm WeHadADealKyle on Untappd.
The frequent autoupdates it makes to other social media accounts can sometimes give the impression that its users are serious alcoholics.
Particularly if you often do tasting flights; and particularly so if you sometimes don't bother adding them to Untappd until the next morning. "Take It Easy" badge, indeed.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 12:29 PM on March 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
Done. I'm WeHadADealKyle on Untappd.
The frequent autoupdates it makes to other social media accounts can sometimes give the impression that its users are serious alcoholics.
Particularly if you often do tasting flights; and particularly so if you sometimes don't bother adding them to Untappd until the next morning. "Take It Easy" badge, indeed.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 12:29 PM on March 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
I think I'm doing This wrong.
You can find me. I believe in you.
posted by maryr at 3:05 PM on March 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
You can find me. I believe in you.
posted by maryr at 3:05 PM on March 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
I just came in here so I could be the first person to say "Yik Yak", even though it's not remotely true.
posted by penduluum at 10:48 AM on March 20, 2015
posted by penduluum at 10:48 AM on March 20, 2015
Thanks guys for reminding me to unsubscribe from their email list.
This is the result:
posted by cosmic.osmo at 8:23 PM on March 22, 2015 [2 favorites]
This is the result:
We have removed your email address from our list.That sounds...desperate.
We're sorry to see you go.
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posted by cosmic.osmo at 8:23 PM on March 22, 2015 [2 favorites]
Ha, that reminds me of what CalTech pulled on my my senior year in high school. You see, CalTech was under all sorts of pressure to even up their gender ratio, so they sent applications to every girl who scores better than a 700 on their Math SATs and checked the "sure, share my name with colleges" box. I... did not want to go to school in California, so I ignored it. About a week after the application deadline passed, I got a fresh form from CalTech, with a letter suggesting that perhaps my application had been lost in the mail, or I had forgotten to send it, so just for me they were sending me a fresh copy and extending the deadline for a month. This happened every month until mid-Spring. The same thing happened to several of my friends in the same demographic. It was hilarious.
posted by Karmakaze at 11:43 AM on March 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Karmakaze at 11:43 AM on March 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
i had a very similar experience with the naval academy in annapolis. i guess they like my asvab scores? i was a total anti-war hippie so i never followed up, but they were super interested in talking to me and kept trying to track me down.
posted by nadawi at 5:11 PM on March 23, 2015
posted by nadawi at 5:11 PM on March 23, 2015
That sounds...desperate.
No? Did maybe your cat, like, walk on the keyboard and step on "unsubscribe" by accident? Because that happens. My cat has done all kinds of shit to my computer....like, changing from portrait to landscape display. It's the craziest thing, I don't even know how to do that, but he just steps on it with his fat paw and suddenly the display is magnified 17% and the narrator is on. Then I have to figure out how to undo it, which takes like half an hour. Shit is crazy. So, we know it can happen. No worries. Just checking.
Or maybe you did it the other night, after you had that 3rd beer. Those were high-octane beers, you know, not that 5.5 stuff. I know it knocks me for a loop when I'm not expecting it. Just saying, your thinking could maybe have been a little fuzzy and I don't want you to have to face the consequences of a decision you didn't really think through.
Maybe we caught you in a moment where you were like "AAAAA I get TOO MUCH email!" Dude, we know where you're coming from. Legit. I can totally get behind unsubscribing from, like, Dick's Sporting Goods and shit. But you know what, we're not that. What you need is more of, like, a surgical strike mentality. Dick's? Gone! Ello? No way, that's an essential life tool, like a Leatherman. I mean we understand what you're dealing with but you need to approach this kind of thing with some strategy, not some knee-jerk reaction.
No? Are you sure? Listen, think it over. I'll get back to you in a few days and we can talk about it some more. I just feel like we owe it to you - no, you owe it to yourself - to really give this consideration it deserves. I care about you, and I don't want you to miss out on maybe the biggest social media thing that's happend in the last eighteen months. Or the next eighteen months. Or maybe ever. That's all I'm saying. It's about you, not us. More soon.
posted by Miko at 5:46 PM on March 23, 2015 [13 favorites]
No? Did maybe your cat, like, walk on the keyboard and step on "unsubscribe" by accident? Because that happens. My cat has done all kinds of shit to my computer....like, changing from portrait to landscape display. It's the craziest thing, I don't even know how to do that, but he just steps on it with his fat paw and suddenly the display is magnified 17% and the narrator is on. Then I have to figure out how to undo it, which takes like half an hour. Shit is crazy. So, we know it can happen. No worries. Just checking.
Or maybe you did it the other night, after you had that 3rd beer. Those were high-octane beers, you know, not that 5.5 stuff. I know it knocks me for a loop when I'm not expecting it. Just saying, your thinking could maybe have been a little fuzzy and I don't want you to have to face the consequences of a decision you didn't really think through.
Maybe we caught you in a moment where you were like "AAAAA I get TOO MUCH email!" Dude, we know where you're coming from. Legit. I can totally get behind unsubscribing from, like, Dick's Sporting Goods and shit. But you know what, we're not that. What you need is more of, like, a surgical strike mentality. Dick's? Gone! Ello? No way, that's an essential life tool, like a Leatherman. I mean we understand what you're dealing with but you need to approach this kind of thing with some strategy, not some knee-jerk reaction.
No? Are you sure? Listen, think it over. I'll get back to you in a few days and we can talk about it some more. I just feel like we owe it to you - no, you owe it to yourself - to really give this consideration it deserves. I care about you, and I don't want you to miss out on maybe the biggest social media thing that's happend in the last eighteen months. Or the next eighteen months. Or maybe ever. That's all I'm saying. It's about you, not us. More soon.
posted by Miko at 5:46 PM on March 23, 2015 [13 favorites]
Miko is, in the parlance of our times, crushing it.
posted by Devils Rancher at 10:18 AM on March 24, 2015
posted by Devils Rancher at 10:18 AM on March 24, 2015
pssst I have even more this.cm invites if anyone wants, just memail
posted by everybody had matching towels at 12:41 PM on March 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by everybody had matching towels at 12:41 PM on March 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
I got five more today too, feel free to email me after you email ehmt.
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 12:52 PM on March 24, 2015
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 12:52 PM on March 24, 2015
Thanks EHMT; I'm on.
posted by klangklangston at 5:01 PM on March 24, 2015
posted by klangklangston at 5:01 PM on March 24, 2015
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