Social apps to help you make choices
Sometimes we just spend too much time trying to make a choice and end up more confused that we were at the beginning. The good news is that there are a few social apps to help you make small and big decisions easier.
I “was introduced” to these apps for the first time about a month ago. We couldn’t set up a date to gather for a few drinks with the Lovefone team, and Pete, one of our colleagues, suggested we should try the group scheduling app, Doodle. It turned out to be a simple and efficient tool. The only thing we had to do was to tick the dates when we were available for the next week in a pool created in Doodle. Thus, we saved the time usually spent playing email ping-pong and it was easy for us to agree. Needless to say, the winner was the day when the majority of us were available.
We used the web interface of the tool, which is available for everyone with a desk computer, is free and can synchronize your calendar with other calendars. Though, for £1.99, you can buy the Doodle app for iPhone from the iTunes store.
Seesaw - For all the decisions you need to make every day, on the flight.
Shortwave - is another social app that will help you make choices, this time an even more visual app involving video sharing.
Or, as TechCrunch put it - a Reddit style iPhone app.
The app is somehow similar to the well known Vine video app. Though, its aim is to facilitate conversation, not just to share content and specific moments.
You can start yourself a conversation on any topic, in order to ask for advice, or you can choose to explore threaded video conversations initiated by others.
Later on, I stumbled upon another decision making apps, most of them pretty entertaining and addictive. I chose to present you two of my favorites.«If you’re trying to find a convenient time to meet several people, try a simple scheduling app like Doodle. » – The Wall Street Journal
This app allows you to get instant help from your friends, whether what you need to decide is which music album you should buy, what to cook for your birthday party or which flat you should rent.
According to Venturebeat, Aaron Gotwalt -cofounder and chief executive of Seesaw believes that unlike being just a simple pool, this app helps you “make decisions with the help of the friends that matter most”. “Seesaw is designed to help you make those decisions quickly with the help of people you know and the much smaller number of people you care about"This means that although there are many other decision making apps out there, similar to Seesaw, such as Polar , Loop - Social Polling , or PeepAdvice , this one is different. Its focus is on helping you get your friend’s opinion and not just anyone’s opinion in the virtual space.
This is because the best content should rise to the top through user voting, and also because of the social dynamics of following other users and discovering new users in each thread — when someone participates in a thread, “You’re bringing your fans and friends to my party and I’m bringing my fans and friends to your party, and it’s the same party in the end.”I’m pretty sure that, for most of us, decision making is not an easy task. Sometimes we’d rather have little to no choice in the matter. It seems easier. Here come these social apps designed to make decision making easier. Let us know if you’ve tried any of them and which is your favorite, and we’ll give you to choose between some discounted phone repairs, depending on your needs.