Everything you need to know about the new social app Vero
By daire-March 3, 2018
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Unless you have been living under a rock you will have no doubt seen many MANY posts about "Vero", a new social network that is going viral. The app is very similar to Instagram and includes the same photo-sharing features such as editing tools and filters. What Vero does differently, however, is that it lets you choose who sees your photos from 3 separate groups; good friends, friends and acquaintances. You can also share music, books, movies, shows, places or links in the same manner.
The disadvantage of the sudden success of Vero is that users have trouble trying to sign up. When posting photos and making contact with others, users are regularly faced with time-outs because the servers can't handle traffic. Even though the app first launched in 2015, it's still in beta apparently. Not a great start for an app that's making headlines and going viral.
The CEO of Vero is a Zero, not a Hero
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Vero CEO Ayman Hariri[/caption]
The app was devised by Lebanese billionaire Ayman Hariri, son of the former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Hariri developed the app because he had problems with the privacy policy of existing social networks. The billionaire is against ads on social media. Also, according to Hariri, Vero will not use algorithms, targeting and mining user data.
As I mentioned earlier, Ayman Hariri is a very controversial businessman. He was deputy director of family business Oger, a Saudi construction company before the Saudi Arabian government stepped in and shut it down in 2017 due to mismanagement. The "mismanagement" in this scenario was withholding wages from over 2000 employees for weeks resulting in many of them starving with no way to buy food, water or medical supplies. Nice guy, right?
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