A brief look at Dropon

I’ve been trying out this new piece of social media, named Dropon, and I’d like to discuss my findings here in a brief way. If you like to follow me on Dropon, go ahead.

source: Dropon
source: Dropon

Dropon’s USP: Privacy

The big advantage of DropOn is one you don’t see as an end user, but has everything to do with why people hate facebook: Privacy. Dropon claims to encrypt, protect, NOT share and give you total control of your privacy (read it here).

So what does Dropon do?

Basically twitter with more words

Source: Dropon - The menu  sidebar
Source: Dropon – The menu sidebar

The thing is that Dropon actually works a lot like twitter. You follow people, people follow you. You have a timeline and use ‘drops’ instead of ‘hashtags’.

What it has in favor of twitter is a very spread out, calm look. Twitter is not a calm medium to look at, it’s high traffic is rather overwhelming in fact. Here you see the sidebar that Dropon offers. It looks cool and calm and you know all of these things already. Dropon in that sense is not aimed at a target group that has not been on social media yet, it’s the same old stuff really.

It works a bit like … well, Twitter and Facebook

The way it works is pretty similar to the media you know, just the names are different. You can do something with the way the font appears, which is cool and lacking in the traditional channels. Source: Dropon - the posts.

Source: Dropon – the post

The most interesting thing is the settings Dropon offers. Your profile is not something you can manage and customise that much, but it offers an open field option, which is cool. The thing Dropon does best is offer a very clean and clear menu structure, specially when it comes to privacy. Something different, compared to the dense, complex and hidden settings of facebook. Compliments for that. It also looks like it will work very well on a tablet or smartphone, but an app is not yet available.

Hello? … is there anybody out there?

The biggest downside of Dropon at this moment is that it copies twitter when it comes to finding followers and people to follow. Sure, you can easily look for ‘drops’ to follow (like ‘Marketing’ or soon I would imagine ‘Sexybabes’), but finding people you know is quite hard. Hence the call from users on twitter for followers. Dropon offers no way to look for contacts, something that even Linkedin offers (and twitter). It also lacks the option for groups that facebook has.

Conclusion

If you are one of the people that has big issues with privacy of other social media (and rightly so!), then Dropon might be a place for you. Currently it seems to be a bit of a ghost town and questions have been raised on how the makers plan to make some money out of it. I expect very little of Dropon and due to its redundant functions, it appears to be the next social media ghost town.

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