Facebook alternatives: pros and cons of MeWe, Cake, Reddit, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram
- If Facebook’s policies are not to your liking, where can you go? MeWe has ‘all the features people love and none of the BS’; on Cake you can mute annoying users
- Then there’s LinkedIn, where business relationships can become personal, Reddit if you can navigate it, Twitter, and Instagram. We weigh them all up for you
So maybe, like Coca-Cola, Unilver, Starbucks and other corporations, you’ve had it with Facebook and its policies about either not curbing hate speech, or if you’re on the other side of the aisle, censoring free thought.
Where to go? We have some ideas for you.
Yes, that network that for years was thought of solely as a place to look for work, or a network to sell. Nearly 700 million people belong to LinkedIn – a sliver of Facebook’s two billion plus – where the mission is far different from sharing recipes and travel photos, bragging about life achievements and watching funny cat videos. LinkedIn says it wants to “connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful”.
But as Facebook has become more toxic, those industry pros have started using LinkedIn to promote the same sort of family and travel exploits, in addition to career and marketing inspiration.