Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Social media communities for Vegans and Vegetarians

I looked for a couple different vegan social media communities. One that I found was on Reddit, called ‘r/vegan’. It has lots of threads where people post any problems, questions, recipes, ideas, etc. Personally, this was the group that I was already a part of, and sometimes look on. This is due to it being easy to navigate and find that it has the most relevant information for what I want. 

I then found a stand-alone vegan social media, called Vsociety. To use Vsociety you have to register and give them your email address. On Vsociety you can connect with your community, buy and sell ethical products, watch, listen and read a collection of conscious content, find events. Personally I did not like this social media that much, this is because I found some issues with their UX and text, also you have to give lots of different data when signing up, such as your country, birthday, videos you like, things you like to read,  what you buy, what you talk about, what events you attend. After fully signing up, I have noticed that it is similar to linked in but for vegans and vegetarians. 

I also found a Facebook group called ‘UK Vegan’ it has different recipes, ideas, questions, recipes, fashion, beauty, food, etc. It seems to be a quite friendly community that genuinely cares to encourage people as well as educating people. I really like this group however I am not a massive fan of Facebook on a whole, however this is just my opinion. 

I also looked at the Happy cow forum to see how they did, they spoke about raw food, meditation, different foods, animal rights, health, etc. However, I found that they do not get many responses and doesn’t have the same community vibe as the other forums. This was personally my least favourite social media that I found, as it seems more disconnected than the rest of the ones I found.  

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