New social media platform TrueEQ aims to compete with the plethora of new sites, all offering an alternative to Elon Musk’s X – formerly Twitter. This site, however, has a mental health slant.
Things started out well on the site, before taking an odd turn.
EQ, or Emotional Quotient, is different to IQ (Intellectual Quotient). ‘Emotional intelligence (also known as emotional quotient or EQ) is the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict.’ - helpguide.org. It’s a supply of ability in the brain, not dissimilar to Intellectual Quotient, or IQ.
TrueEQ founder Brandon Bishop (whom I’d connected with) explains emotional intelligence, and his site, on the Toronto This Weekend podcast.
Publicists Ascot PR informed me of the site some weeks ago, so I set up a profile on TrueEQ, and I was posting blog links there. The site organisers had left a few good comments on my profile here and there, which was nice. All of this was on desktop: there wasn't an app on the Google Playstore.
On the home screen, I could see buttons for the connections I’d already made, the opportunity to find others, a chat function and ‘My EQ.’ This final section offers a form of scoring, which for me stood at 46 the last time I’d checked – I’m not 100% on what this is but I expect it’s out of 60. ‘My EQ’ was broken down into 5 sections: Self-Awareness, Social Awareness, Self-Management, Relationship Management and Mixed Pillars. These were each graded out of 12 for the interactions I had on the site, perhaps like an accountability measure. I never got any clarity on this.
The site was a bit niche to become as popular as some of the other platforms, but as I write about mental health a lot it was possible I might have made a few connections there. There’s no app in the Google Playstore as of yet and the site was quiet, but as the general public talk about mental health more and more, it’s likely to pick up traction. I was also struggling to find the screen that shows my profile, what everyone else would see when they find me on the site.
After a few weeks of using the site, my profile disappeared.
I tried to contact TrueEQ over other platforms to no avail. They seem to have no presence on any of the major social sites. Nobody seems to have even mentioned them.
I asked Ascot PR, who first informed me of the site, why this might be. No response.
A social media platform with an emphasis on mental health could do great things, considering a lot of mental health problems are exacerbated by online interactions. They’d have to run it a lot better than TrueEQ, though.
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