Why are you Karl A L Smith doing this?
It’s really simple, things are not going well in social media, the once liberty to contact friends and engage over a long distance on funny and silly things has become perverted into a control tool.
All me is being designed and built to give us back our digital freedoms to say and do silly things and not be judged by people who don’t know us and should not be involved in our lives.
Support All me social app on Kickstarter HERE.
Manipulated through Social Media
As we become directly accessible to any content, marking or propaganda anyone who pays wants to send us we lose our rights to peace and freedom of thinking and finding out other perspectives.
Its quite scary how easy it is to adjust people perspectives by telling cat lovers that a certain politician does not like cats and dog lovers that the same politician does not like dogs. Suddenly Cat and Dog owners slightly distrust that politician and when they say cats and dogs are not being eaten by immigrants people are unsure. Small adjustments over years can bring massive impacts. Content strategy for social media is an activity that subtly changes public opinion to make the most horrific acts okay for some people.
Interview with Karl A L Smith in 2024 about Circles now renamed as All me
In this interview Karl A L Smith covers off all the key information about the state of the All me project in 2024 and the plans for 2025.
All me is a direct response to Enshittification (Cory Doctorow Nov 2022), also known as crapification and platform decay, is the term used to describe the pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.
Support All me social app on Kickstarter HERE.
All me combines Personal and Professional social interactions
One of the fundamental differences between All me and any other social interaction is the ecosystem desire but driven from separated avatars.
Personal Interactions are significantly different from Professional ones to lead to people losing their jobs for just having fun. No one is perfect and perfection is the route to totalitarianism and dictatorship. All me is designed to to separate each key characteristic with it own profile with and architecture and data model initially focused on sixteen profiles each, with three being available on launch.
From the below you can see just some of the information relationships that people may want to separate. For example protecting your children may involve you in a private interest group with your family where friends or others cannot see pictures of them.
- Personal profile = Family
- Personal profile = Family > Partner
- Personal profile = Family > Children
- Personal profile = Family > Parents
- Personal profile = Friends
- Personal profile = Interests
- Personal profile = Interests > Music
- Personal profile = Interests > Film
- Personal profile = Interests > Anything
The same is true in your Professional profile do you want the HR team in your current company to know your looking for a new job? Perhaps you want to start a small business to see how it goes before quitting your full time job? Privacy is important in your professional life too.
- Professional profile = Employment
- Professional profile = Resume
- Professional profile = Business
- Professional profile = 401k or Trading
- Professional profile = Interests
What is the difference?
All me users will start with up to three profiles and you will have the option to use the two extra profiles.
All me will — at its core — be private and anonymous as your data belongs to you: you decide who you share it with.
All me supports communities of interests so you find the things that interest you. The subjects or interests aren’t pushed at you.
All me will not carry advertising and will be funded through your micropayments of $2 per month per profile.
All me is designed to support Personal and Professional social interaction in separate profiles.
All me, previous working title: Circles (explainer website https://circles.mobi/) was changed so it cannot be confused with any other app.
Support All me social app on Kickstarter HERE.