Are you on Ble.at yet?

[mary1]

It launched today like a Facebook and Pinterest in one for vegans. It's open to everyone else too but looks to be geared to vegans.

If you're on it, can you share your user name so that I (and others) can follow you?
You can find me here: http://www.ble.at/users/mary

 

[RascalsMom]

I've never heard of this site. I'm not interested in yet another social networking site, but for those who are big into all that I am sure having one geared towards vegans is nice.

 

[Pirate]

I never quite understood pinterest, but I'll give this a go if it's all vegany.

edit: There I added you.
If anyoen else wants to join in I am http://ble.at/users/liz

 

[RabbitLuvr]

Between Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Goodreads, Twitter... I can't keep all my current accounts straight.

I hope this new one is nice for those who use it.

 

[mary1]

Hehe the great thing about joining early is getting the exact username you want! woohoo!

 

[Alice-Bee]

I havent decided yet. I can barely keep up with all the accounts I have...I also have doubts incase its full of 'better vegan than you' types...as it seems to be getting lots of attention on a vegan group I joined on Facebook and the people in that group are meany vegans.

 

[mary1]

It IS a site for vegans. They do invite vegetarians and omnis but explicitly have said they aren't going to encourage vegetarianism. So unless vegetarianism is just a stepping stone on your path towards a goal of going vegan, then it may not be the social network for you. At the moment, there are a crap ton of "meat is murder" and "dairy is rape" posts flooding the scene but I expect that will die down since those people are just preaching to the choir.

That said, if you ignore those kinds of posts, it's an exciting place to find other people that happen to be veg*n. I would encourage you to join and find out for yourself. A sign up is not a commitment. Overall I find it to be a positive space.

 

[ledboots]

Between Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Goodreads, Twitter... I can't keep all my current accounts straight.

I hope this new one is nice for those who use it.

I just saw this on there, though.

 

[Chryssie]

Ok ... like I NEED this but I signed up..... I probably won't do much with it, much like pinterest but we shall see.
Here I am: http://ble.at/users/chryssie718

 

[KLS52]

Ugh... I did it, too. KLS52 there as well.

 

[Chryssie]

I uploaded a picture for my profile and it doesn't seem to be showing up. Wonder what I did wrong?

 

[Pirate]

I just noticed that there is no "forgot your password" option. Lucky I got in on the umpteenth time haha, but ummm noone forget their password.

Ive never used Tumblr so it feels weird to me to basically steal and reshare peoples photos, haha. Ill just stick to liking everything.

 

[KLS52]

Yeah, I'm little confused with how it works. I was looking to post some sort of intro but didn't see anything. So I just posted a picture of my cat, Bogart.

 

[Tom L.]

I havent decided yet. I can barely keep up with all the accounts I have....

This. And I don't have that many accounts: one email account, two message boards. That's it.

 

[KLS52]

I haven't been back on there since I signed up. Oops.

 

[Spang]

I just now clicked on this thread. Now I know what ble.at is. I'll give it a once-over.

 

[Renee1]

Nah, I'll skip this one, I find vegans pretty exhausting thb.

Edit: The non-joyful kind, I suppose I mean.

 

[Spang]

I think if I had some original material to contribute I would join. But until that happens, I think I'll just browse the main page from time to time.

 

[SummerRain]

I like pinterest a lot, I follow lots of vegan cooking, sewing and knitting boards for useful ideas. I think pinterest is only really useful if you're into cooking or crafts, I don't find it otherwise useful.

Anyway I had a lot at Ble.at and the first thing I saw was a picture of a monkey in a lab being tested on, and a couple of other similar images. I don't need to see that kind of thing on a daily basis, it just makes me sad and feel a bit sick. I can understand that emotive images are useful for converting people/getting attention, but I can't really see anything positive about being faced with those kind of images everyday.

Plus, my experience with vegan-only groups, especially online, has always been somewhat negative. I always feel like people are being judged on whether they're "vegan enough" and whether they do enough to support animal rights, I don't really want to be part of that.

 

[Danielle]

Seeing all those images is depressing, especially when you look around and see everyone supporting it. Blah.
I prefer not to look at those images anymore..