MeWe is a company that you might have heard of a few years back. The MeWe channel began testing in 2015, and the network began to expand in 2018, but not to the extent that it is now in 2021.
MeWe recently attracted 2.5 million users, a lot of them coming from Facebook, feeling that the tech giant is overstepping its concept and destroying free speech for the masses.
MeWe, as a social media network, is regarded as the anti-Facebook network. It has many of the same features as Facebook and has a similar user interface, but claims to respect people’s privacy and their freedom of speech.
Many people that left Facebook or are spending significantly less time on the once-dominant social network in the last month have opened accounts on MeWe. It will be interesting to watch if the momentum of people leaving Facebook changes the tech giants policies.
The difference between a Personal page vs. MeWe business page.
To start on MeWe, you have to register for your personal page. The setup page is pretty much like any profile page on Facebook. It has a big horizontal background image and a profile image on the left, (see above image).
For a monthly charge of $1.99 a month, you can have a dedicated business page. MeWe uses the business page as a means to make money by subscriptions, versus a Facebook ad model.
Like Facebook, if you check for content on your MeWe home panel, you can view feeds from your page. You can also look for pages, groups, and users like Facebook.
A really great feature of MeWe is there are no ads like you see all over Facebook today.
No Adverts!
In the absence of advertisements, there is no need for users’ details to be provided. Since news items are ordered in chronological order, there is no need for algorithms, no need to keep thousands of points of interest to sell on.
For a lot of people, the privacy factor and not being tracked and fact-checked all the time is a major selling point.
If you have joined MeWe or plan to sign up, please follow me at: mewe.com/i/stevebrown01
Steve Brown
