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What's the point of this, other than "nicknames are hard to remember?" Not a rhetorical question, since that seems to be the main point brought up in the articl
by mariojv 9y ago
What's the point of this, other than "nicknames are hard to remember?" Not a rhetorical question, since that seems to be the main point brought up in the article. Presumably, there's some other problem they're trying to solve with this.
Anecdote: I found seeing the various usernames on the platform quite nice when I used OKCupid a few years ago. When my now-husband and I met on the site, some of our first discussions were about why we chose the usernames we did.
- maxander 9y agoOne reason and one only- to make it easier to sell user information. OKC has detailed, directly-stayed information on all its users’ likes and dislikes, of a sort second second only to that generated by Facebook (maybe.). If they (or some marketing analytics firm working with them) can figure out a way to connect your user profile made on your laptop to you as an Amazon shopper on your cellphone, that’s worth Big Bucks. Having a real first name makes this easier- and also makes the reliability of the process sound more convincing to executives who still don’t, deep in their bones, trust statistical techniques.
- vuln 9y agoIf it's a paid account then they would already have that information. Is the quality of data they will mine from the free accounts worth it? I don't know. If you have the app installed they can already see your location and what not. Just seems like a bad move.