Hang With

Hang with is a new social media app with the potential to be the next essential platform.

Facebook and Twitter have cemented themselves as the two most popular blog oriented platforms with incredibly easy to use systems that incorporate all forms of media. There have been many other relative newbies to utilise visual media to offer an alternative on the over saturated text blogging market. You Tube, Skype and U Stream being some of the major players but maybe not being so social media inclined.

Instagram have emerged as champions of photo based blogging and Vine as their video counterpart. Hang With have entered this fiercely competitive realm with an entirely new selling point, which is; hanging out with the people you follow via live broadcast. A great way to harness the technology of a smartphone and connect with people across the world.

Standing on the shoulders of the giants that came before them, Hang With have combined Twitter's following system with Instagram's gallery and U Stream's live broadcasting facility. Already a host of celebrities, actors, musicians, sports personalities and random attention seekers are broadcasting and I've already briefly seen Timbaland hanging live (he was with his kids so I didn't really want to pry, was a bit weird to be honest thought he'd be broadcasting from the studio or something). Apparently you can jump into a text conversation with other people hanging while you watch the broadcast too.

Of course social media is always more fun when you interact with friends and family. 

Hang With makes this easy by allowing you to sign in via Facebook and invite all of your friends, not forgetting the old email and SMS options of sending invites too. Couple that with the ability to share your broadcasts via twitter and Facebook, you can see just how popular this app could get.

I'm salivating at the prospect of seeing Floyd Mayweather Jr. talking trash whilst blowing hundreds of thousands live, or Kevin Hart giving us some live comedy in everyday situations. Of course I'll be coming to you live from the studio real soon myself.

Another thing that will help this app to get closer to the major social media players is their re-invention of tagging. In a similar vein to Twitter's @KalSereousz format Hang With uses w/KalSereousz.

Feel free to follow me and hang out for my next broadcast. I've got the new 2.0 app for iOS and it's great I'd recommend it. Alternatively they have an android app and you can always browse to www.hangwith.com also.

Let's Hang!