On Social Media

If you're familiar with an alternative to Google Plus - particularly if it's a relatively obscure service - please consider posting an entry here to tell our members what that alternative is like. It would be great if you could include screenshots , and describe some of the details of how you use the service. Tell us what you like about it. You can certainly talk about flaws, too. If possible, please include the #WhatItsLike hashtag. Thanks!

I have been seeing a lot of social media sites mentioned, and there is no way that I have the time or energy to try them all out myself. So I thought it might be helpful to have some screenshots of various alternatives. This is the main page of my journal on Dreamwidth. Most of it is obvious, I guess. The Reading page contains posts from people and communities that I have designated. I can create many different views for my reading page, with different communities and individuals, of course. I have great flexibility and control for who can see each post, including me-only and public. Public posts can be shared with non-members and indexed by outside search engines. From the posting page I can also post to any community that I'm part of. The inbox allows private messages as well as containing copies of any comments made on my posts. I'll include a second screenshot with more detail in the comments. #WhatItsLike