I’ve been extremely excited about Path 2. It’s design is simply beautiful from aesthetics through experience and is truly a great way to easily capture and share life’s moments.
One thing that irked me though was the audience I shared these moments with. Unfortunately, the first thing I did when I signed up was try to add everyone I knew. It was the new thing to do at it looked lovely so why not try to experience it with everyone?
Well, eventually I found myself NOT posting for my Path audience but for an extended Facebook or Twitter audience, even though all my Path friends came from those two networks. I quickly found the only reason I was using it was to enjoy the experience and design but really wasn’t finding much alternate value that Facebook and Twitter aren’t already providing.
“The smart journal that helps you share life with the ones you love.” – Path.com
So instead of tossing it away in a folder on my iphone I found a way to keep it on my homescreen. I now use Path as my replacement for text messaging and sharing with the one person I love, my wife.
Often I found myself out and about wanting to share a picture or make a joke, or simply say something that I didn’t want anyone else to see but my wife. I wanted to share pictures of me and our little girl when we went out on Daddy/Daughter dates. I wanted to tell me wife where I was or I simply just wanted to tell her that I love her. Or there were times when I was away on a business trip that my wife wanted to send me videos and picture of our two kids.
Now this is all possible. My wife and I both have Path account set up and it’s just the two of us. We have a place to document our interaction when we’re not together. It’s logged, dated and we can look through the stream of things we may have missed when not around the other person. We can share those moments missed with each other or with our kids.
After I thought of using Path in this way, I went back and visited Path.com and realized right on their homepage is a commercial expressing this exact notion and I realized I just initially missed the point of Path from the very start. Glad I’m on the right Path now :P
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Update: Some have expressed that Path 1 was intended for this use, but for me Path 1 didn’t execute on a beautiful and enjoyable experience like Path 2. I now can use Path in a way that feels valuable and enjoyable.
