- November 15th, 2010 by Nathan Fischer
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Path is a new photo sharing and social networking site that lets you share photos with your closest friends and family. The company has some pretty big-named supporters like Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Rose of Digg. Unlike other photo sharing apps like Instagram, Path takes a, well, different path, and it’s what might make or break the service.
Path only allows you to share your photos with up to 50 people at a time. This means that you can’t go broadcasting your photos to your hundreds or thousands of Facebook, Twitter or Flickr followers. The idea is that you’ll have a more private place to share your pictures with a small group of select viewers – things you might not share when you have strangers looking, too.
However, the principle might also be the new company’s downfall. It’s obviously difficult to predict the future, but after having used the application on my iPhone for a day, I don’t see why I’d use this instead of Instagram. I don’t separate my private and public life in such a way that a select group might make it easier for me to share certain pictures. So that makes me wonder: who will use Path instead of other photo sharing and social networking services that give you the option to broadcast your photos to whomever you want on any platform you want?
Oh, and right now it’s only available on the iPhone. For my friends and family, that’s not a big deal since we all use iPhones, but for others, the app might be completely worthless if they have no one with whom to share pictures.
Or maybe I’m being short-sighted. Maybe Path will be the next big thing. The app is free for the iPhone and is coming to other platforms soon. Here’s a video that shows the application in action.
[Via Path]
