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>To me, that seems like a cultural thing unique to Silicon Valley that the rest of the world does not necessarily want. It makes a ton of sense from their busi
by beowulfey 7y ago
>To me, that seems like a cultural thing unique to Silicon Valley that the rest of the world does not necessarily want.
It makes a ton of sense from their business perspective, which is to sell highly personalized ads. If you have one single internet persona, it is far easier to tailor ads to you.
- adamc 7y agoIf the service is unappealing, I will not use it, or use it less. So, there are trade-offs.
- roblabla 7y agoNot really no. If you have only one online persona, then you'll only show one angle of your life, and the rest will simply become invisible to facebook. People are unlikely to change how they are, they'll just change how they use the tool. Letting people show different angles of themselves through differently branded websites makes it much easier for facebook to build complete, thorough profiles of people.
- penagwin 7y ago> then you'll only show one angle of your life, and the rest will simply become invisible to facebook. I feel like the opposite may happen? I.e. instead of only showing one angle of their life, the idea is that people share _all_ angles of their lives. Either way you end up with the same result "one persona". The only people who care this deeply I think are the same ones who block ads or don't use facebook anyway.
- RobertDeNiro 7y agoSeems like a much smarter approach would be to make it seems like you have different personas, but behind the scenes you can tie them together.