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Unless you're famous or trying to be, why would you want to prove to everyone who you are?
by mscasts 8y ago
Unless you're famous or trying to be, why would you want to prove to everyone who you are?
- jonnydubowsky 8y agoSocial proofs will become more valuable (imho) as we move toward a Web3.0 hybrid identity model where the identity layer, data layer, and application layer are seperate and we have taken ownership of our personal data. Keybase, Blockstack and others working on the Web of Trust concept, are establishing the means for us to prove ownership of our social media accounts by cross posting uniquely identified tokenized messages which link back to provable account owners. This is one way towards solving "fake news", and introduced attribution and attestation across multiple identities. The more accounts you've linked and proved, the more trustworthy your communications through those channels.
- Nadya 8y agoI don't care to prove to anyone who I am (hence pseudonymous) - however I do care to prove what I say. Being able to prove I am who I say I am allows me to also prove what I say is what I say. I'm not particularly famous - but in a few social circles I have authority. Enough authority that it is important that people are able to verify within good measure if it was really me who said something or not.
- rictic 8y agoOne use case I can think of: someone claims to be the author of a well known library. With their github account proven, that's pretty easy to establish.
- jedberg 8y agoIt's the other side of the equation that is more important to me. I want to know if someone who is claiming to be a well known person is actually that person. If someone comes in here and claims to be the inventor of redis, I want to know that they actually are.
- Jach 8y agoI know someone with this scenario: they pissed off someone years back, and that someone made a twitter account pretending to be them, which despite lack of activity in years still ranks on the first page when searching their full name. Twitter does nothing about it. Friend doesn't even use Twitter, has an account that's "private" but not really anything in it. Solvable longer term with SEO/twitter participation but it's not ideal. Sometimes you just want to make clear that someone pretending to be you is not you, and if social media and search companies can take that into account, all the better.
- Kagerjay 8y agoThis is one of the reasons I go through efforts of having social media accounts. If you dont define your own social branding you leave yourself a backdoor to trolls.
- 80386 8y agoSomething like this happened to me. I couldn't think of anything else to do, and didn't have much on my resume at the time, so I changed my name to something common enough that there's hardly any chance Google will find me.