Plurk vs SHALLOW

Discover, connect, and share interesting stuffs with your friends, family, and like-minded folks at Plurk! Grant yourself unlimited ways to express yourself like sharing your thoughts, moments, videos, artworks or simply everyday life tidbits, be they bizarre or serious. And we take it seriously at protecting your privacy -- Never will you worry about your emotional secrets being read by the annoying colleague around the corner, or the nagging aunt in the neighboring state. Highlights of Plurk: - Custom Emoticons: Use emoticons created with any types of images to paint thousand words in your messages -- animated or still, cheerful or sorrow! - Private messages: Limit who can see and reply each of your messages, and turn them into private discussions!

SHALLOW shows you the room you're standing in. Every place has its own Current — a bar, a house party, a concert, a wedding. Walk in, dive in, and you'll see the people who are actually there with you, floating as bubbles. Nobody else. There is no feed of strangers and nothing to browse. THE CURRENT Dive into a venue and you appear as a bubble — your colors, your light. Tap a bubble to open someone up: what they're into, what they're here for. Send a wave. If they wave back, a private conversation opens between the two of you. WHEN YOU LEAVE, YOU LEAVE Presence expires. Walk out of the venue and you disappear from it — for everyone. Nothing about you stays behind and nothing follows you home. SCOUT THE NIGHT A live map of the city showing which places have people in them right now, with real head counts. Know where the night is before you leave the house. YOUR OWN CURRENT Hosting something? Start a private Current for your party, your event, your wedding, your conference. Guests join with your code and the room belongs to you. BUILT FOR BEING SOMEWHERE - Verified people — every checkmark is a real person, selfie-checked by a human - Your exact location is never shown to anyone, ever - Photos stay private until both people agree - Voice notes, for when typing is too slow - Block and report anyone, anytime Start Shallow. Go Deeper.