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So why not Vox?
By Huw Leslie | December 5, 2006
This is a personal blog, yet I have gone down the route of installing Wordpress, a theme and getting it all set up as I like it, rather than choose Vox. I reviewed Vox on Gizbuzz a little while ago, and really liked it. If you don’t know, Vox is the latest personal blogging app from Six Apart, which really emphasises social networking features. You set permissions on your posts to say who within your network is allowed to read them, or you can make them public.
If you look at FCOL, you will see that I have most of the features that Vox would provide me with, but with the noticable absence of social networking. It’s not that I don’t think that social networking is a good idea - it is, and Vox does it very well. The problem arises out of the fact that I don’t know anyone who uses Vox. If I did, I would probably be using it. This highlights a major problem for aspiring new social networks. I will only use a social network if my friends are on it, but I’m not prepared to send out the spammy emails required to get the three or so that would actually respond.
If I can’t have the social networking features, I may as well not use Vox, and therein lies the problem. Vox need to get me to use it because it is the best platform even without social networking features, so that eventually people see that I am on Vox and follow (I’m being optimistic about my ability to act as a social leader here!). And right now, for people like me that can set up Wordpress but don’t have any friends on Vox, Wordpress remains the best option.
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