Meet Beme- A New Look Into Online Social Interaction

Jared Ferris, Editor- A & E

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What is Beme? Beme is a new social media app, but it isn’t your normal type of social media. Unlike apps like Snapchat and Instagram, you don’t get to judge and “touch up” the pictures or videos you take before you send them out into the social cloud.

Casey Neistat, the founder of the new company, Beme, along with Matt Hackett, the former vice president of engineering at Tumblr, have a new vision on what quick video sharing should be.

To use Beme, you cover the proximity sensor, this will act as the record button. You have 4 seconds to record whatever you are looking at, and after that 4 seconds the video will automatically upload to the user’s followers. There are no likes, shares or comments. The only way to show any type of feedback is with something called “reactions”. This is when the viewer, as he/she are watching the clip, will wiggle his/her finger on the screen and begin taking pictures of themselves.

Casey and his team aren’t worried about the competitors such as Snapchat & Periscope. He said, “The authenticity of the app will attract new users eager to broadcast there life in a new way”

Shaun McBride a good friend of Casey’s used the app to share the birth of his first born baby girl. Roughly 50,000 people watched the Beme’s. Shaun said “I asked my wife whether or not I could share this, she said only if I used Beme.”

Casey is already huge on Social networks already. He started his career as a film maker, and now has branched out into YouTube. Every morning around 8 am, he uploads 5-10 minute vlogs. (Think of blogs on the internet but in video form) As of writing this article he has accumulated 1,188,405 subscribers, and that is growing every day.

The app is only available for IOS for Free at this time, but Casey says that an Android version is in the works.