Hello BBSer's. We are back with one more post where I wanted to talk to you about the death of one of the oldest and most famous social platforms in all Latin America, Taringa, which recently announced its closure for this March 24 (both its web version, taringa.net, and its application). This has come to me out of the blue, like many other members of their community, but, after seeing all the mistakes they have made recently, I felt that I could see it coming sooner or later. Not only that, but all the mistakes they made reminded me of the early days of BBS Network, which is the topic we will talk about next.

Like any new project, Taringa launched a year ago a mobile application that served as a social network where you would earn money by sharing content. The idea behind this was to compensate Content Creators, something that does not happen in popular social networks. Now, this didn't quite turn out to be the case after making certain decisions that led it to shut down this premature new project. With ideas like a "Referral Program" where it rewarded people for bringing new users, the reward system for content that was so simple and yet so manipulable and a platform in beta state that still lacked many things to improve and implement, the application grew in number, but also in criticism, complaints and accusations.

Tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars were distributed among people who manipulated the system with multi-accounts, ghost accounts, fake referrals, bots, support groups and much more. While the idea had a lot of potential and support from the beginning, it ended up being ruined by the very community it formed by making some rash decisions. People blamed the owners of Taringa for shutting it down, but in the end it was they themselves who caused its ruin. Does this all sound very familiar?

Well, yes friends, some of these decisions made by this project, which happens to be run by a critpo company, sounded a lot like when I started here at BBS Network, watching how Eyal and his team made decisions that, although they sounded great at the time, with time we completely regretted them. In this market and world there is such a wide variety of similar cases all over the world that it makes us reflect a lot. But, what is important in all this is the experience and the lessons we take from it.

Unlike Taringa, BBS Network is still standing, yes, in a dark pit but it is still up and running. Compared to others, this platform is very well developed and, although it still has a lot of things to improve, it is still functioning and operational today. It is not like this case of Taringa and its application that, with a company of more than 50 members, constantly had problems, it would crash, it would hang, it would close all the time, in short, it was an odyssey.

That is why BBS Network is, for me, an example to follow of perseverance because, although it has made many mistakes in the past and its competition is now years away from development and advances, it is still standing, working and with a little bit of hope for this community that has seen everything and has been very faithful for years now. We are not alone, let's be grateful for all the little we have received from this platform and give it the value and attention it deserves, even now that it is trying to resist and stay afloat.

All The best.

By: Nattosheru.