Have you been looking for a new social media site? No? Too bad.

The new big thing this weekend is Ello. Ello this, Ello that, who’s got an Ello invite to spare. I got on the party train for a hot minute and scored an invite… But then, I didn’t use it.

WHAT.

I know, guys. Get on the party train at the station, be an early adopter, pick up on opportunities to tout my trendy social media skills to brands who might wanna work with me for having my ear to the ground and my finger on the social media pulse.

Here’s why I’m holding out for a bit on signing up for Ello:

Two-Timing Social Media Time Suck

Ello’s being called the anti-Facebook, basically by being the new Facebook. Think about how much time you’re spending on Facebook already. Do you need another one? Maybe all your friends are jumping Facebook ship, and you wanna keep up. But are ALL your Facebook friends jumping ship, or just some of them?

So… are you going to now have two time sucks to keep up with?

Yeah, no thanks. I’ll stick with the one that’s been a constant for the last 8 or so years of my life, the one that my mom in law is on.

I rearure you – Carole’s not jumping on Ello anytime soon. I like being where she’s at.

That New Social Media Site Won’t Let You Auto-Post

One of Ello’s terms of service is that you’re not allowed to automate your posting.

Ello is for human beings. It is against the rules to use a computer to register a lot of users on Ello, or to follow lots of users, or to automate posting.

So you social media mavens out there using buffer and hootsuite… Ask yourself again.

Do you want two time sucks to keep up with?

Nothing Lasts Forever – Even Ad Free Promises

If you’re jumping Facebook ship just because Ello says it’s never going to monetize… Come on now. Think about other social sites that have been ad free for like, forever. That now have ads in your media stream.

Instagram.

Twitter.

Pinterest.

Maybe Ello will stay ad free for a few years… but I doubt it will be forever. Especially years from now when there’s a bajilliion users and a buck to be made.

Then There’s That Porn-Friendly Thing

If you haven’t read this article yet, take a read. Ello is totally cool with NSFW content as long as the user is tagging it as NSFW.

That’s cool, sure, if you don’t wanna see scantily clad ladies you just tell Ello not to show you the stuff tagged NSFW, right?

Think about this – the user posting the content has to disclose that it’s NSFW. So they have to remember to do that. Or if they do remember, they have to be the upstanding citizen that doesn’t show rear ends to users that don’t want to see rear ends.

I know that when I’m posting sponsored tweets, Facebook posts, Pinterest pins, and so on, that despite my own best efforts I forget to add the #ad or #spon or #sponsored tag to the post sometimes. It happens. So can we trust that someone posting rear end shots is going to remember to click NSFW every single time?

So they’re pro rear end-shots. But then on Ello’s WTF page, which is their FAQs, they state they’re anti rear ends:

Ello has a zero-tolerance policy for any form of hate, trolling, stalking, spamming, flaming, impersonating others, harming children, pornography, or any other behavior designed to hurt another person physically or emotionally.

But then they’re actively working on adding NSFW flagging to the site so people that don’t want to see rear ends don’t have to. Looks like they need to figure out where they stand on that issue.

As a work at home mom, I’m gonna skip Ello. At the end of the day, whether Ello’s for or against rear ends on my screen, I don’t need my 4 year old and 6 month old seeing em while I’m working on my social media tasks.

Plus, really. I’m having a hard enough time keeping up with Facebook.

Are you signed up on Ello?

Share how it’s working out for you in the comments – do you like it? Are you over it already? Did you just join to grab your screenname?