One of my biggest problems with social media is that it often has a lot of negativity.

The freedom we get online leads to people treating their social media posts like an infinite supply of bumper stickers that they can force everyone in their feed to read.

Complaints about everything from politics to the jerk that cut them off in traffic propagate throughout social media. Recent anonymous social platforms have taken this to the next level with people often saying hateful things about others without the worry of being called out by their peers.

While Momunt was built to curate shared images around you for the purpose of saving memories, my last couple of months using our alpha has lead me to another interesting use case…

People only take photos of the things that they love.

Momunt is a completely textless feed. It shows you only the images that are being shared around you. It turns out that this is an inherently positive experience. Let’s take food for example — while people may turn to Yelp or Twitter to complain about their meal, those people don’t tend to share photos of that horrible food. When someone takes a photo of their meal and shares it publicly, it almost always means one of the following:

1. I finally went to that restaurant!
2. I love this thing.
3. My friends love this thing, so I’m showing them that I love it too.

My earlier post about using Momunt as reverse Yelp is only possible because of this phenomenon. Since people only share positive experiences via photo, you can stand outside of any restaurant or point of interest and run Momunt to see if that place is cool enough to show off about.

Furthermore, at restaurants, if you get more than one photo of the same dish (as I did with the Churros pictured above), you can rest assured that the dish in the photo is the one you’re supposed to get.