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Separation of control can't be over-emphasized. When FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook, I decided to go in and manually delete a bunch of information I'd int
by indiejade 17y ago
Separation of control can't be over-emphasized. When FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook, I decided to go in and manually delete a bunch of information I'd intentionally kept off Facebook, but didn't mind having on FF, and to completely delete my (rarely used, but existent) Facebook account.
To me, it's important to have separation of control between the people that I know IRL (e.g. old high-school friends with whom I have to sometimes "dumb down" my natural style, at the risk of sounding like a haughty intellectual) and the people that I communicate with online, people with whom I'm interested mainly in sharing ideas / the interesting nerd info. The contexts are such that it's sometimes important for me to use proper logic, grammar, and syntax, and sometimes not.