Complete Guide to Using Vero

Very recently, just two years ago, Vero was born, a new social network concept that, in the long run, could do a lot of damage to Instagram. To tell the truth, his opponent is fearsome: more than a billion users use the queen photography application every day. A great community translates into a great social life. What happens, for example, with Telegram? That, despite being more secure than WhatsApp and having more useful features, we did not use it ahead of time. And because? Because everyone is on WhatsApp. A vicious circle difficult to break.

Vero is like Instagram but full of vitamins: in addition to being able to share our photos we will be able to recommend movies, series and books, as well as links to news. And best of all, the publications will appear to us in order of publication No strange algorithms based on the popularity or number of likes of a certain photograph. Something that many long for to reappear on Instagram but, for the moment, there are no signs of it coming true.

Also, Vero claims that he doesn't want your data. And it will never include: in return, it will ask for a small amount as an annual fee. Of course, if you open an account now, it will be free, forever. An offer that is available to the first million users.

If you feel like trying this new social network, if you have downloaded it and you are not clear with its interface (many users have rated it as cumbersome) or, simply, you are curious to know what it is about, do not miss our complete guide to use Vero, the new Instragram.Will it be able to establish a good number of users or will it be forgotten forever?

Vero: first steps

First, let's go to your page in the Android app store, Google Play Store. Its installation file weighs about 70 MB, so it's up to you whether to download it with data or with a WiFi connection.

Once you have downloaded it, we proceed to install it and open it for the first time. A black screen with the logo in blue welcomes us. Here we can read 'Vero beta': this means that the app is still in testing. This is the main reason why it does not have enough positive ratings in the Google Play Store: It still has work to do to make it stable and not bugs, which it does , and more.

Now, you will need to create a new account. To do this, you must enter your email and your phone number to receive a security code on it.

Next, allow Vero to access your contacts. In this way, we are going to allow the application to suggest us friends and acquaintances from our agenda or social networks that are already in Vero.

How to create a profile in Vero

Your profile will have been created, automatically, when you connect your email with the app. Now, we are going to edit that profile to make it as attractive as possible. If you look closely, at the top of the application, we have several icons. Focus on the one with silhouette shape Click on it.

To upload a photo to our profile, click on the circle and choose a photo from our gallery or make a new one We can scale and move the photo, as well as add filters to it.Once we have our avatar (you can have up to three, later we will explain how to configure them), click on 'Edit biography' and put a simple phrase that represents us. You will have already created your profile in Vero.

How to upload your first publication

Let's upload our first photo to Vero. Although it does not have to be a photograph: you can also recommend movies, series and books and post URL links with texts. This makes Vero quite an attractive mix of Facebook and Instagram. On the main screen, we proceed to click on the ‘+’ icon. Click on what you want to create.

• Photography. Just like we do on Instagram. The camera opens, we take the photo and then edit. We can write something as a caption and place the photo in a specific place.
• Internet URL Link. We copy the URL and Vero will automatically detect that you have a link on the clipboard. We paste the address and we will choose the thumbnail, extracted from the link itself. Then, we will write the text that we want and that's it.
• Music. Do we want to recommend a song? Not recommend it, perhaps? Say we're listening? Search for the artist and the title and share it with your contacts and friends.
• Movie/TV. Same as in the music section, but with your favorite movies, series and programs.
• Book. Recommend a book or prevent your friends from reading it.
• Place. Choose a place and then a photo of it, taken from Forsquare, Bing or your own gallery. Then, recommend (or not) or report where you are.

Choose privacy settings

Before publishing any post, you must choose who you want to see it. Vero classifies your contacts into four levels of trust:

• Intimate friends
• Friends
• Acquaintances
• Followers

Every time you upload a publication you must choose which segment of your contacts it is addressed to Thus, the most personal publications can be directed to your close friends and a serial recommendation to all your followers. Each segment encompasses the previous one, you have to take this into account, that is, your acquaintances are also followers, and your friends are also acquaintances and followers.

We take a look at its interface

• As we said before, in Vero we have several icons at the top. Specifically, there are five:
• With the magnifying glass we are going to search for contacts, hashtags, places, movies, series and to see what the application itself recommends. We can see products that the application sells, such as photography books, designer clothes, etc., popular hashtags or featured creators.
• On the contact screen we can see how many people we have connected with, our followers and followers, as well as our publications, pending requests ( those that we have made and those that have been made to us) and the application settings, which we will see later. On this screen we can also invite our phonebook contacts to join Vero.
• Collections: The next icon is the 'Collections' icon.Here you can see everything that the contacts share with you. For example, your friends' recommended movies so you don't forget them. Or the photos and videos of your contacts in chronological order. If you want to see all the books that your contacts have recommended, go to the 'Books' tab.

• Next we have the notifications screen. Here you can see all your interactions, accepted requests, 'likes', etc.
• Chat screen. Here we have Vero's messenger. Choose one contact to have a private conversation with or several to create a new group chat. In the conversation screen, we can activate personalized push notifications.

How to search and manage contacts in Vero

A social network without contacts is not a social network. How can we find friends and people we know in Vero? Well, first, we must have allowed access to our contacts Thus, Vero will examine our agenda and notify us if we have any in the app. To do this, we are going to go to the personal page. Remember, you will find it in the silhouette icon.

On our page, we select the 'Contacts' card.

Here we have all our current contacts in alphabetical order. If we click on any of our contacts, we will access their personal page. On this page, we can modify the degree of friendship that we have with this contact, in case we regret having given it a higher degree or vice versa.To do this, we just have to display the tab under their name.

If we look at the bottom, we have a three-dot menu. Here we can 'introduce' the user to our other contacts (creates a card we can share), filter their posts (ie if you only want to see recommendations from books of a user and not the rest of the posts), block the user or disconnect.

This is how we can find friends in Vero

On the contact screen, click on the cross that we can see at the top.

• In 'Discovered',Vero will suggest contacts you are not yet related to. Press and proceed to ask him for friendship. As simple as that.
• In 'Featured',Vero will suggest important contacts that create quality and interesting content.

How to create three avatars in Vero

You may not want to show the same profile picture to your different groups of friends, acquaintances or followers. That's why we're going to teach you how to customize your profile picture based on your trusted list.

• First, we go to our personal page in the icon of silhouette
• In the lower right corner, click on 'Settings'
• In 'Account', the first section of all, we find 'Avatars'
• Choose 'Use three avatars'
• If you want to change the avatar, click on the circle. A small window will open at the bottom where we can change the photo
• You have three different types of avatars: those you show to your close friends, your friends, and acquaintances and followers.

All Vero Settings

This is all we can see on the Vero settings screen:

• Account: here we can change our username and avatars
• Privacy: if we want to allow anyone to follow us, send us contact requests or only those who have our phone number
• Buy: in the Vero app you can buy items. In this section you can enter your bank details as well as access the order history
• Push Notifications: configure all app notifications: likes, comments, mentions, chats, etc
• Chat: chat screen vibrations and notifications
• Content: Your hidden posts and blocked users

Now that you know all about Vero, the choice is yours. Do you think it's worth it? Will you change this new social network for your Instagram? Do you think your success is a flash in the pan?