I think vine is pretty cool. It makes you feel (digitally) closer to the person who posted it because you can actually see how they act and what they like to do, as opposed to just reading over a post and going about your day. It's giving your followers and friends a more personal look into what's going on in your life, not leaving people in question. Even Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia has started using Vine as a means of showing Twitter followers the highlights from speakers who visited the college.
Who owns vine? You guessed it: Twitter. Vine is Twitter's way of competing with Facebook and Instagram. The layout is very similar to that of Twitter and Instagram, interestingly enough. Compared to Instagram, Vine is following the same motive. By that I mean entirely devoted to one thing. Instagram: pictures; Vine: videos.
A shortcoming of Vine is that there is no way to censor these videos. At any moment, something can show up that contains violence or nudity. With kids using social media on their phones/tablets at such an early age, the people behind the scenes must figure out a way to prevent this content before they acquire too many complaints from outraged parents.
Vine has the potential to remain popular for a while. Hopefully this will work out in Twitter's favor, not just being a fad that got overrun by the creepy people from Chat Roulette.
I agree Abbie. There needs to be some sort of sensor to the videos.
ReplyDeleteVine's nature is video which was bound to come out sooner rather than later as a social media platform. I believe that Verizon was the first large corporation to take advantage of Vine, which is good for any business to stay as up-to-date as possible with social for brand image and awareness reasons. But that's a good point that Vine will have to censor videos, but with anything like that, it was probably inevitable. SnapChat has gotten some bad press lately too about teens sending nude snapchats to themselves and they will eventually have to censor parts or create an age limit to use the app. It'll be interesting to see where Vine will go and how it will grow in the future.
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