FourthSpace – Bridging Social Media with Your Social Life

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FourthSpace – Bridging Social Media with Your Social Life

Hello I’m Aditya. Me and my co-founder are on a mission to eradicate social media addiction and loneliness off the earth. There’s no reason for us to turn to digital companions of any kind, or be in social isolation, when we can and should be having direct discussions with each other everyday. We're building FourthSpace as a solution to these issues. One of the biggest problems many people are dealing with right now which is preventing them from hanging out with others is the cost of going out, buying drinks, transportation, etc. We've built a beta version of a feature to solve this. If you go to our website and launch an Audio Content Lounge(at the bottom of landing page), you can watch Youtube videos synchronously with your friends or family. You don’t need an account to test it out. Once you’re in you need only copy the link by tapping the ‘share’ button and sending it to whoever you want to join you. And to add a YouTube video simply tap the ‘+ Youtube Video’ button and paste in the links of the videos you want to watch together. Pausing and playing a video will be synchronous. We hope this audio content lounge feature can help people who are dealing with this problem be able to more easily spend time with others on a daily basis and not have to worry about all the logistics of going out. My friends and I love watching NBA highlights together in them and recently we’ve been discussing upcoming playoff games together in the lounge’s while watching related content together even though we are in different parts of the country. Additional Features Inside of FourthSpace(after you sign-up and log-in): * A social media content globe as opposed to a feed, designed to give you the ability to choose what you consume. The globe is broken up into topic areas, where you will only see content for the specific topic area you choose to consume content in. Click on a topic to zoom into a topic area or use pinch gesture on your track pad to zoom in and out of the globe. * We don’t have much content uploaded as of yet but you can be amongst the first. Kind of like the early days of YouTube. * Content system is not designed for discovery or time spent on platform but instead for building community. * Dedicated “Friends” section. If you add someone as a friend and they accept and you upload a picture to FourthSpace they will see it in their friends area. No other content will be in this area other than picture or video posts from friends. Also no likes or comments or followers so there is less incentive for people to chase clout. Like original instagram without the vanity. * Built-in time tracker and notifications whenever you’re spending too much time ‘scrolling’ or in this case moving around the globe. Every 5 minutes you will be invited to instead ‘touch grass’. Plus a whole lot more. Keep in mind we are in early beta and a lot of the features within the globe aren’t fully functional yet. So please be patient with us as we continue to build. But the audio content lounges are functional and hopefully can help people spend more time with each other already. Please read our manifesto at the bottom of our website if you have the time as well. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions feel free DM me on Instagram @aditya.rao.iv Thank you.