New Social Media Site - Tsu

Phil,

Some of us have been in an earlier thread on Tsu.co

Please follow me at https://www.tsu.co/DavidBridburg

I will happily reciprocate. I like your work.

Good evening,

Dave

I'm on there too

https://www.tsu.co/nicolewhittakerart

Hi Phil, I opened a thread about Tsu 5 days ago: http://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2159841

Welcome to Tsu, I will follow you there. Greetings from Germany

Matthias

http://tsu.co/hauserfoto

Grüss dich Matthias wusste nicht du bist Deutsch.
Only time will tell. I do love how easy it is to set up and use. The clean look is very pleasing and looks professional. I am not a FB friend since FB keeps changing their terms and is claiming our artwork. Would love this to work out to benefit all.

Here is mine https://www.tsu.co/IrisR

the reason i'm not joining this site is because unless your a member, no one will see your posts. and i'm not joining a site where i can't do that. it would be a waste of my time to only show members stuff. the whole reason i would join is so the public could view the content. but if all they will see is a big blurry screen, there would be no sense making anything for it. i can't even try it out without signing up first. there are only so many places i would want to advertise on. there are hundreds of sites like this already, in one form or another.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Mike, I understand what you are saying and it's true, it is currently not an open universe and provides very limited opportunities to be seen by or troll for customers.
Facebook started with an even more limited access pool and within 5 years was taking over the internet. I'm wondering if there's value in being "early to the party".
With their business model I would think they are going to be very popular with a younger crowd, which is also not generally our customer base, but again Facebook started with only access to college students.

That's why I started this thread though, I wanted to hear opinions about and experiences with this site. Thanks

facebook only took over because parents wanted to see what their kids were up to, then were hooked themselves. it wasn't limited it just wasn't known. but it was never so private that you had to join to see anything. i'll worry about that site and others 5 years from now when it's known to everyone.

like when launched i didn't think pinterest would be a good selling platform unless you directed people over there. and i was right, it's not. its full of copyright breaches, and its hard to find things. and in the future i don't think it will improve any. facebook is a pain to use because so many post totally useless junk that anything i send out will be washed away. lost in a sea of cats and cake recipes. or status updates of where they are in traffic now.

twitter is not super great either. a sea of text, it gets lost fast. its saving grace are the bots that suck up links that have hashtags. and those links are spread every place. i tried houzz for a few minutes, but you need huge images to be there, and that defeats the purpose of being there.

i'm more interest in places that have been around for a LONG time. places that have regular people, places that search engines know about, places that didn't just close a year later. this way i'm not wasting my time. its also not like if you get in early you'll do better in the long run. it's more of a presence thing. and the more sites your on, the more you have to maintain.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Mike,
you have named all the places NOT to be.

What do you suggest as social sites, places, we should be? Places that have been around a long time, have regular people, places that search engines know about, ......

You're not correct about the origins of Facebook. It started at one college and rolled out to add colleges a few at a time and required a .edu e-mail address to join. That's why parents couldn't see, they weren't allowed in, 't was very limited. It opened up when those college kids graduated and started losing their .edu addresses. Then came the big money and the advertisers.

Maintaining an active presence on multiple sites is a major pain and much too time consuming. I absolutely agree.

By the way I noticed you are in Westfield. I grew up in Scotch Plains. I was in Westfield last Sunday.

the places you should be in are the ones people have heard about, that searches can find and places that people can see, that are not invite only, or look like a fad or clone of something else. is facebook great? no. it's actually quite clumsy, but people know about it, and use it, to the point you see it in comics and such. it's become a word like google or photoshop. people kind of have to have a presence there its how some people communicate. i never considered them a great place. i don't really consider any place being that great. but people find you in different ways. still though, in order to be seen you have to build up a following, and if your on too many, you'll never have time to make new art. and how many common folk are joining? what is the incentive.

i don't know the history of facebook down to the origins. i just know it was a place for kids, now it's a place for adults. how they make money is beyond me.

as said i only join places that everyone else seems to be on and i think i can get something from. like i'm not on tumblr, there isn't enough content there. i'm only on pinterest because people were taking my work anyway and i needed a control. i'm not social, so i don't seek that out.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com