Hello Ello: What You Need to Know About This New Social Networking Site

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In Facebook’s decade-long quest for market saturation, the social networking behemoth has many users questioning the site’s validity. Privacy concerns and experiments have users complaining. Some feel inundated with advertising. Facebook’s continuous algorithm updates and the necessity to pay for boosted posts and ads in order to garner page engagement also has many businesses groaning. Is a new social networking site the solution to the seemingly-growing list of Facebook concerns? Let’s find out:

Hello Ello
Ello is a new social networking site, now in beta, which cambodia phone number list apparently sees the growing discontent with Facebook as a marketing opportunity. In its manifesto, Ello promises not to sell user data to advertisers or allow advertisements. In addition, pseudonyms are permitted.



Ello was founded by Paul Budnitz and Todd Berger. Budnitz, who is also CEO, describes himself as an artist, designer, author, filmmaker and serial entrepreneur. According to Ello’s “About” page, the site was originally created by seven artists and programmers as a private social network, and then made public because so many people wanted to use it.



Demand is high
It’s not been easy to get on Ello, as it’s been inundated with tens of thousands of requests each hour. Those interested in joining may request an invite on the site, but those invitations are slow in coming. With tens of thousands on the wait list and Ello only inviting small batches of users at a time, an invitation may take weeks or months. The quickest way to gain access to the site is to procure an invitation from a new user, but users can only invite five friends.