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Poparazzi photo app blows up by banning selfies

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Hyping up your friends is actually a lot more fun than self-glorification. After a decade of Instagram, the whole “Look at this photo I took of what I’m doing” game is growing stale. In fact, it’s a bit asocial just lobbing your solo snapshots into the feed. A true social network doesn’t just make consumption social (Likes, comments, reshares), but makes creation social too by insisting on collaboration. That’s the concept behind new social app Poparazzi that launched this weekend. It’s so new it doesn’t even have an app ranking yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it debuts pretty high on the charts given how many signup notifications I’m receiving from friends. [Update: Soon after I published this, Poparazzi premiered at #1 on the App Store charts. Pretty remarkable for a tiny startup!] So what is Poparazzi? It’s an app where you can’t post photos of yourself. Instead, you have to tag a friend. Selfies are persona non grata. There’s not even a front-facing camera to help drive the soc

Hyping up your friends is actually a lot more fun than self-glorification. After a decade of Instagram, the whole “Look at this photo I took of what I’m doing” game is growing stale. In fact, it’s a bit asocial just lobbing your solo snapshots into the feed. A true social network doesn’t just make consumption social (Likes, comments, reshares), but makes creation social too by insisting on collaboration. That’s the concept behind new social app Poparazzi that launched this weekend. It’s so new it doesn’t even have an app ranking yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it debuts pretty high on…

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