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Instead of creeps silently going through photo feeds, they can directly ping you for more photos!

Seriously though, I hope this idea catches on and it can possibly be the start of a trend of social media users becoming more "humble". It would be nice to see things flipped on it's head and move away from the push model of "here I am, here is a constant stream of useless shit about me".

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Agreed. I definitely think this is the sort of thing that would encourage you to share photos with your close friends (would you ping a random stranger for updates?). Think many smaller circles, instead of gigantic newsfeeds.

However, by nature of that alone, photos thusly shared are more likely to be of a private sort. I'm curious about what level of privacy these guys will offer and how they intend to back it up.

I was really excited for the same reason. Sadly, it seems all of my friends are either too old or disinterested to be on Povio. I had a serious forever alone moment when I fired it up.

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