A true social network doesn’t just make consumption social (Likes, comments, reshares), but makes creation social too by insisting on collaboration.

It’s an app where you can’t post photos of yourself. Instead, you have to tag a friend.

you become your squad’s paparazzi, snapping them in single shots or multi-photo sequence GIFs like they’re a celebrity you caught stepping out for coffee.

There are no captions or hashtags or comments to futz with. It all about letting scenes speak for themselves

the machine gun vibrations make you feel like you’re actually a photographer trying to score the perfect shot of a celeb — and the awkward frames in between. It’s a subtle message that you’re going to take a lot of photos with this app.

Profiles don’t show how many followers someone has.

the goal is having fun, not world domination.

A lot of guys literally don’t have other decent solo shots of themselves. I hope Poparazzi encourages men to hype up their friends.

The app auto-follows everyone in your phone book, which you could see as a growth hack or a privacy issue. Those contacts might include people you don’t care about, would be embarrassed to follow on a social app, ex-lovers, or even stalkers.

The Future Of Social Is Multiplayer

Alex and Austen Ma, the founders of Poparazzi, have brought this concept to the original breakout social networking feature: photo sharing.

While it might seem like an arbitrary constraint to only allow photos of others, it’s the edges of the canvas that give shape to a work of art.