Facebook and its NPE team have experimented with an app
which is the tenth app by the team. The app is a collage boarding app where users
can create early-internet inspired collages through canvases. The app is called
E.gg.
"Free-form
mixed media collages/pages that let you express anything from your favorite films/albums/novels to a collage of succulent pics to, say, an
about page for an app."
New! Introducing https://t.co/q199YM7REf, an experimental new platform for weird and wonderful expressions of who you are and what you love pic.twitter.com/kQldJeXB6h— Jason Toff (@jasontoff) July 28, 2020
It is sort of a
social media platform that allows the users to add any various types of media,
and edit them. Once the editing is done, users can post their collages on their
profile to be shared with other E.gg users. E.gg was inspired by the old school
web platforms like Myspace and GeoCities, which also plays a part in one of its
drawbacks.
The app itself is
smooth but the reality of it being needed in the modern world remains in
question. There are a lot of online platforms that are more popular and have
more updated tools than this app. Sure, the idea behind the app was to create a
sense of nostalgia, but the modern world has a lot of tools that make the
collage-building easier and more advanced. The tools included in E.gg are the
ones that dates back to early 2000s when the idea of making collages was still
fresh, and hence its popularity.
