Do you use hand towels for toilet paper? (Why am I making bad analogies like Ray did here?) You probably don’t because hand towels are better suited for drying your hands than … you know what. Even though both are made of paper, they are designed for different purposes.
Spokeo is a specialized reader designed only to track your friends; whereas, MySpace and LiveJournal are multi-purpose social networks more geared toward expressing yourself and socializing online. Just like hand towels cannot replace toilet paper (and vice versa), Spokeo can never replace social networks. You cannot message or blog or comment on Spokeo, since including these features would clutter Spokeo’s reading interface. For the same reason, social networks cannot allow you to browse more conveniently and comfortably than Spokeo, since they got 10 times more buttons that do more than just reading.
It’s nice to be able to do everything in one page, but it’s not good to have hundreds of small buttons that no one knows what it does. Your computer screen has a fixed real estate, so there is a limit to what a website can do. Since most people browse online way more often than writing blogs or posting photos, we feel that there is a need for a specialized reader that helps you organize your friends’ content in one place. With Spokeo, you can quickly take a glance of all the updates across your friend networks. Afterwards, you can decide whether you should go to MySpace or LiveJournal to hang out.
So why use Spokeo? Well, it’s a simpler and hassle-free way to connect.
