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What is a "desktop"? Is that where I place my phone to charge?
by mountaineer22 10y ago
What is a "desktop"?
Is that where I place my phone to charge?
- cheriot 10y agoHa, way to make me feel old. A mobile app with one of the cloud storage providers can also work without killing your battery and data plan.
- throwanem 10y agoI think you've just poked the point the article author misses. I'm not sure I see a technical reason why my nexus of identity has to be physically colocated with my person, and there are a lot of good reasons for it not to be. The important point is that, be it wherever it is, my nexus of identity is not Facebook's or anyone else's but mine.
- mountaineer22 10y agoAlso, why should a nexus be a 1:1 relationship with your person? Should a person be allowed multiple nexi?
- throwanem 10y agoAbsolutely! This is something my prior comment overlooked, so thanks for catching that. It's another good argument for remote hosting, too; correlating identities is easy when they all originate their communications from the same network address, especially if it belongs to a phone or a residential broadband account. When the phone's just a client, such correlation becomes much harder. I would go a bit more general than what you said, though - instead of a given person being allowed multiple nexi, I'd say that ideally there should be no one in a position to grant or revoke such permission. If the fashion in which I manage my identity is not wholly within my control, to what extent can the identity so managed be said to be mine?
- mountaineer22 10y agoI am actually advocating a new form of authorization that is based on AOL, Prodigy, and CompuServe handles.
- throwanem 10y agoThat'd be funny if only it were funny, you know? The names have changed, and the scale, but that's about all - Facebook is a better AOL than AOL ever dreamt of being.
- mountaineer22 10y agoAOL had better non-user generated content, same with Prodigy, and better sense of communities (which I see in Reddit sometimes).
- throwanem 10y agoNote that I didn't say Facebook was better for the people who use it.
- toast0 10y agoI always wanted to be known as two integers separated by a comma, but I was too late.
- matt4077 10y agoThat's actually pretty close to what Google+ tried with "Circles" when it launched: the idea that people exist in several distinct yet fluid social universes and that there should be a way to apply fine-grained yet intuitive rules to your sharing behavior. Turns out most people exist in one social universe, namely Facebook.
- andy_ppp 10y agoMost people over the age of 20...
- bbctol 10y agoI'd say it more turned out that Circles were decidedly unintuitive, and far more of a pain to use than Facebook's single list (which can still be heavily customized, most people just don't bother.)
- throwanem 10y agoDoesn't Facebook also have a nasty habit of surprising people with breaking changes to the way those customizations work? I seem to recall hearing of such things on a fairly regular basis.
- pantalaimon 10y agoI think the circles were fine, the problem g+ had was that it lacked plenty reasonable features (events, anyone? never understood this when google calendar integration would have been a killer feature). That's facebooks main use case for a lot of people and it's absence made g+ pretty useless.