Path (social network)

Path is a social network for mobile devices, where you can share photos and messages.

The company began with an iPhone application and a website and later published a version of Android. The company competes with other social networks like Instagram and PicPlz.

History

Path was founded in November 2010 by Napster developer Shawn Fanning and former co-manager Dave Morin Facebook. The project received financial support from prominent actors and programmers such as Ashton Kutcher in the amount of $ 2,500,000.

2011, the project has been completely renovated and equipped with new functions. So it could grow to 300,000 users within a month of about 30,000.

In August 2013 Path partnerships entered into with WordPress and many other apps to integrate a Like on Path button there.

Functions

The main feature is the ability to share, swap, tagging and commenting on photos. Furthermore, as in usual social networks, messages are exchanged. One difference to other networks is that the maximum number of friends is limited to 150. The company justified this by saying that the contacts selected and should be of high quality. This is to ensure that private information may be shared only with selected contacts.

Criticism

In February 2012, the company ran into criticism because it transferred its user address books on the server. In a blog post, the company apologized and said that all data has been cleared.

In February 2013, the companies of the Federal Trade Commission was sentenced to pay a fine in the amount of $ 800,000, because it saved information from minors. In addition, the operators were obliged to leave the privacy policy for the next two decades, every two years. It was also banned the operators of Path, continue to hide the non- user-friendly handling of private data. Again explained the operator that all data has been deleted from the intimate servers.