Only a few months ago, two of my former co-workers, Patrick and Kendall, were raving about Listgeeks, a social network based on making lists. I remember thinking, ‘these guys are brilliant, but why would they ever care about a social network of lists’?
To me, lists are annoying. Like, that means you have stuff to do. No list? Nothing to do.
I considered whether or not I should invest time in Listgeeks. And then I considered again. And again. Finally, I created two lists (first, places I want to visit, and second, favorite foot to put socks on first. I know, normal, right?). I didn’t like my lists, so I abandoned them. Meanwhile, Patrick and Kendall came up with some pretty badass lists and I was jealous, but of course pretended like I was too busy to care.
Patrick on Listgeeks.
Check out Patrick’s lists. These lists are better than 99.9% of the boards I’ve seen on Pinterest.
Listgeeks and Pinterest have similar functionality, organization, simplicity, following, commenting, and transparency.
What’s the difference between lists and boards? Well, words versus images (or video). And to quote Steve Jobs circa 2008, “people don’t read anymore.”
These very similar networks have much different traffic patterns:
Listgeeks traffic
Pinterest traffic
Moral of the story? People are visual. There’s limited time and too much content. There’s a trend towards consuming photo and video content over written word.
Have you ever tried Listgeeks? Do you think we should give it another try?
[...] my recent post, People Don’t Read Anymore, I began the conversation. I compared Pinterest to Listgeeks (more on that below), and concluded [...]