Here is the new social networking website that is very trending named crokes.

So what is Crokes? 

Crokes is a service for friends, family and co-workers that allows you to send out messages (updates) up to 300 characters with images, videos and links to people who subscribe to you (followers).  Stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to these simple question: What are you doing? Where are you right now? and What’s happening around you? Share every moment with crokes. Best part about crokes is that it’s very easy to navigate and it’s simplicity. The creator of crokes made it like the way the people want it. You post updates, people follow, and your network grows. This is what Crokes is all about.

How Crokes is useful?

Crokes contains information you will find valuable. Messages from users you choose to follow will show up on your profile under following tab or on discover > following for you to read. It’s like being delivered a newspaper whose headlines you’ll always find interesting – you can discover updates as it’s happening, learn more about topics that are important to you, and get the inside scoop in real time.

How Crokes Is Unique

In the social media world, Crokes falls into the category of microblogging tools because of the short, disconnected messages it distributes.

Crokes shares some features with the most common social media tools (Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+ and Youtube). However, the differences really define Crokes.

• Facebook: An update is like a short Facebook status update. However, with Crokes, every update arrives at every follower’s feed, unlike the filter of Facebook’s EdgeRank.
• Pinterest: Crokes allows you to share photographs and provide commentary in your update. However, with Crokes, it’s much easier to have conversation around a shared image than with the comment feature on Pinterest.
• LinkedIn: An update is like a short LinkedIn status update. While LinkedIn is based on trust relationships (and two-way agreements), Crokes allows you to follow anyone, including strangers with no restriction and limits. This is helpful when you target potential customers.
• Google+: An update is like a short Google+ status update.
• YouTube: An update can contain a link to a video. However, Crokes doesn’t allow you to create a channel or organize your videos for easy location and commentary.

A long learning curve

It’s hard to know what to do with Crokes when you first sign up. Do you write something? Do you follow someone?

You’ll be comforted to know that even Crokes founder didn’t know what to do with Crokes at first.

Some liked Crokes at first while some didn’t got the point of Crokes.

In general, there’s a long learning curve associated with Crokes.

For anyone who needs to build a personal brand, be it a writer, a celebrity, or a company’s CEO, the Crokes learning curve is shorter. You post updates, people follow, and your network grows. This is what Crokes is all about. Crokes is a user and SEO friendly website structure.

But, in the grand scheme of things, the amount of people who need to self promote is small. So it takes longer to grasp the true, non-promotiony need for 300-character status updates.

Which, according to Crokes, is this:

“The fastest, simplest way to stay close and to promote everything you care about.”
Crokes is new in social media industry but it’s better than others in many ways.

The fastest way for news to spread

Crokes is the fastest way to spread thoughts. Not the kind of thoughts about what you’ll eat for lunch. The kind of thoughts that have global impacts.

For example, if you’re a person who is witnessing a major event in real-time, you can express what’s happening faster than any news outlet can report it. Even if you don’t have many followers, all you need is one person to see it and pass it on.

In addition to global news, Crokes is the fastest way to learn about local news. Your city’s subway systems, bus schedules, police departments, and restaurants probably have accounts. You can follow them to get updates on traffic, delays, crime nearby, and store hours.

Another powerful – and sometimes dangerous – aspect of Crokes is its ease of use. Anyone can make a 300-character message and, because it’s so easy to write one on the fly, users are often candid.

The best way to understand to power of Crokes is to see it in action.

You Control the Content

The other day I logged onto Facebook and read a status written by a girl.

It read: “Ate way too much Indian food last night. Spending Easter on the toilet.” Was it awkward, weird and TMI of her to share her bowel movements with 600 Facebook friends?

Um, definitely. But the point is not to criticize her post, but rather the nature of the platform.

With Facebook, your friend list is like a slightly updated version of your high school yearbook. Sure, it’s a great way to keep in touch with close friends and family, but you end up reading updates about random people you have no relation to anymore.

Remember Ross, that guy you met at adventure camp back in 2007? Because you’re still Facebook friends, you somehow know all sorts of information about him, including that he just scored a TOTALLY AWESOME deal on eBay.

But on Crokes it’s a one-way street — if someone follows you, you’re not automatically obligated to read about his or her life. You choose whomever you want to follow, no creepy strings attached.

Crokes is a Great Networking Resource

Crokes is an excellent opportunity to build your personal brand, so treat your profile like a business card and your feed like an ongoing portfolio.

Crokes Is For People Who Want To Be First

As Crokes grows, its ability to break news and become a “real-time town hall.

Traditional media outlets will still be around to sort out the noise and rumors on Crokes, analyze it and turn it into stories.

But no one can beat Crokes for breaking coverage and for promoting your stuff, the fast transfer of thought, and an endless supply of original content that’s easy to consume on the go. Crokes will be – and already is – the only way for us all to stay relevant.

Are you still with me? oh ok now i will explain you in short.

More From Crokes

1. Crokes is big on Privacy. Twitter and Facebook stores your info but we don’t.

2. Crokes doesn’t collect and save your identifying data.

3. You will not find even a single advertisement on Crokes.

Con:

Crokes has a problem. Most people you know aren’t on it because it’s a new social networking website and it’s creator has no money to promote it online and offline. This is where Crokes lacks. Otherwise Crokes is a big deal and can compete facebook and twitter.

They don’t understand what it’s for, or why there’s a need to tell strangers what they’re thinking every moment of the day.

Just because Crokes hasn’t gone mainstream yet doesn’t mean it won’t.

What do you think about Crokes? and how was your experience there? Let me know in the comments. Thank you!

Resource: Crokes.com