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> Social networking - Enabling more meaningful and greater connection between people, leading to greater happiness and fulfillment? I don't believe that this w

> Social networking - Enabling more meaningful and greater connection between people, leading to greater happiness and fulfillment? I don't believe that this was a serious motivation for any of these companies for a second. That might have been in the press release, but most of these social networks were either born from Geocities-begets-Myspace incrementalism, or "watch these idiots give away their personal data" egocentrism. An abridged survey of recent history: Snapchat: it'd sure be easier to sext if these pictures disappeared Instagram: it's easier to take a pic than write something Twitter: pivot from failing product to internal tool Facebook: privacy invasion as a service Myspace 2.0: maybe we can make money off napster? Myspace: Geocities clone Geocities: AOL clone for the World Wide Web AOL: Prodigy clone Prodigy: Walled garden for selling Usenet access Napster: OK, this one was probably the only one motivated to enable more meaningful and greater connections between people, leading to greater happiness and fulfillment

driedUp 9y ago
I once quit a valuable job, because my desk was situated in an open office floor plan, in front of a smart TV with an attached webcam for video chat meetings. I was a person with a job title in control of passwords and two-factor auth routines that served as a potential gateway to millions of credit card numbers. It pissed me off that these people needed us to have our daily morning stand-up right next to my desk, but it pissed me off even more, that I had a camera over my shoulder, running an operating system that I couldn’t audit with an admin account. Rather than rocking the boat, and coming across as a paranoid obsessive control freak security goon, I drafted my resume, and who knows what’s going on at that place by now. To anybody out there, dreaming up bullshit concepts and investing your youth in retarded start up ideas, when everything goes to shit and you’re left high and dry, it will be people like me who turned our collective backs on you, because of shit decision making like this.

driedUp 9y ago

I once quit a valuable job, because my desk was situated in an open office floor plan, in front of a smart TV with an attached webcam for video chat meetings. I was a person with a job title in control of passwords and two-factor auth routines that served as a potential gateway to millions of credit card numbers. It pissed me off that these people needed us to have our daily morning stand-up right next to my desk, but it pissed me off even more, that I had a camera over my shoulder, running an operating system that I couldn’t audit with an admin account. Rather than rocking the boat, and coming across as a paranoid obsessive control freak security goon, I drafted my resume, and who knows what’s going on at that place by now. To anybody out there, dreaming up bullshit concepts and investing your youth in retarded start up ideas, when everything goes to shit and you’re left high and dry, it will be people like me who turned our collective backs on you, because of shit decision making like this.