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That's not what I said. With Facebook, you delegate authority to manage email address to YOUR CONTACTS (not Facebook). In Google or any other address book, I
by portman 16y ago
That's not what I said.
With Facebook, you delegate authority to manage email address to YOUR CONTACTS (not Facebook).
In Google or any other address book, I can go into my friend Ted's contact and change his email address if I want to.
In Facebook, I can't change Ted's email address. Only Ted can change it.
To me, this is a MAJOR distinction.
- stanleydrew 16y agoI grant you the distinction. Now can you please explain why it's important and how Google failing to understand it is the cause of all this.
- portman 16y agoI just wrote a long-ish hypothetical further up the thread. And you know what? Maybe you're right. Maybe Google DOES understand this just fine. But I think the strong language they're using, the bombastic language of "fairness" and "protectionism", implies that they are taking a subtle, nuanced issue of data ownership and pretending it's binary.