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>“I don’t want this to come off like we’re shaming our friends into voting,” said Naseem Makiya, the chief executive of OutVote, a start-up in Boston. But, he s
by astura 8y ago
>“I don’t want this to come off like we’re shaming our friends into voting,” said Naseem Makiya, the chief executive of OutVote, a start-up in Boston. But, he said, “I think a lot of people might vote just because they’re frankly worried that their friends will find out if they didn’t.” That's like, dictionary definition of shaming.
Waiiiiittttt, back that train right up!
What exactly does this person think "shaming friends into voting" is if it's not "vot[ing] just because they’re worried that their friends will find out if they didn’t?"
I don't really care about these apps either way, just... how does anyone have such a lack of self awareness?
- zrobotics 8y agoWell, he looked at the current privacy climate (especially around social media) and thought this was a good idea. I'd say it's safe to assume he isn't all that socially aware. I can say for sure that I received one of these messages from one of my contacts, I'm damn sure shaming that person back for using this service. I'm thinking twitter/Facebook post naming and shaming, along with an explanation about how that contact was clueless enough to share their whole phone book with this app. I for one don't trust them not to do anything shady with that info.