You may never have to see a wedding pic on Facebook again with this app

Photo credit: Galleri5.

How many times have you been sick of unwanted, annoying photo posts from friends that clog your social media feed?

And how many times has that driven you to unfollow, or even deactivate your account, only to realize that unfollowing is no foolproof measure of filtering trash, and deactivating means you miss out on the good stuff too – sending you crawling back to the big bad mess of posts and updates?

Photos on Facebook have been known to generate 39 percent more likes than text posts or even videos, and account for 93 percent of the most engaging posts.

So, if there’s no escaping pictures, is there a way to escape the rubbish ones at least?

Bangalore-based Galleri-5 wants to be the answer to those woes. The startup, which is all set to go live by the end of March, calls itself a photo discovery platform and allows users to sieve through content as per their tastes.

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Founded by Rahul Regulapati and Movin Jain, this social media platform is planning to win over users by making sure their pictures find the right target audience. They curate photos into “galleries”, and even allow users to add pics from Facebook, Instagram, or other social media platforms.

You can earn “Karma” points by “high fiving” pictures on others feeds. The more the karma points, the more followers you are likely to get.

Ditch the baby pics, if you want

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Rahul said he and Movin surveyed 1000 users before rolling out the app, about 80 percent of whom said they would want to give their friends’ vacay pictures a skip and rather see photos that interest them.

“The end goal here is to organize all the photos people upload as per different topics so people can search, find, or follow things that interest them. Essentially, it’s a very strong discovery engine,” Rahul told Tech in Asia.