- Voice your opinion
As social networks become increasingly popular, the notion of voicing your opinion to complete strangers has become more mainstream. Sure, we’ve already got Twitter and Facebook, but they’re both harbouring an ulterior motive – they want you to communicate with your friends, or online acquaintances, in methods that promote uniformity and mutual respect.
Amen is different, though. It does away with all the poking, status updates and direct messages that clutter up what’s really important: the concept of voicing that highly significant personal opinion to others. And that’s what we’re all here for, right?
Described as “a service for battling it out over the extraordinary things in life” the development team behind Amen certainly practice what they preach, evident through their creation of a social network with a very simple premise: users declare a statement, which others can agree with by tapping ‘Amen!’, or object to, by hitting ‘Hell No!’
Unlike similar services, such as FML or MLIA, Amen requires a user who disagrees with a statement to submit an alternative. Such rebuttals appear in the real-time, Twitter-esque network feed that makes up the homepage for this application, which can then be “Amen’ed” or “Hell No’ed” respectively, in order to spark further debate.
As such, it’s not uncommon to see an Amen debate spiral dramatically from the original statement, which may have been something relatively trivial: e.g. “Cheddar is the best type of cheese” or “Red is the best colour”.
Amen has only recently launched into the public domain after an extensive beta testing period, but it’s already proven to be very popular, and has received many comments regarding its addictive nature – particularly surrounding the iPhone app.
Despite the clear separation from other social networks out there, user profiles do feature in Amen. Here you can add friends from your other online accounts, such as Facebook, collect followers and following lists, akin to Twitter, and track your ‘Amen’ and ‘Received Amen’ figures.
Amen is also a star-studded social network. Ashton Kutcher invested in the service back when it was still a startup, and his wife Demi Moore is also a regular user.
Amen is accessible via the iPhone app (pictured above) or through any browser, with both methods sharing a similar interface and style. And the unique nature of this social network renders it one of those services that you truly need to try for yourself, before you can begin to see the full picture. Considering it’s free to sign up and get started, there’s really no valid reason not to.
You can download Amen (£Free) from the AppStore, here.
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