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that only works if you are so careful with your identities that they can't be linked. so that won't help your wife. there certainly are people who want this,
by spot 15y ago
that only works if you are so careful with your identities that they can't be linked. so that won't help your wife. there certainly are people who want this, but the burden of proof is on you to show that demand is more than hypothetical or anecdotal. this is a niche feature, not a killer app.
- danmaz74 15y agoI never claimed to have proof that there would be sufficient demand for this. But if I had to prove something, I would start looking at the number of users who use apps that allow you to use multiple twitter, facebook etc. accounts. By the way, my wife already manages different identities by using different services (ie facebook and linkedin).
- spot 15y agoso what's to stop someone from resharing an update of hers from facebook to linkedin? i don't see any real difference from circles. facebook does not allow multiple accounts. twitter doesn't have that many users. "niche".
- danmaz74 15y agoFacebook forbids a lot of things, but that doesn't mean that they don't happen anyway. Before you ask me, I don't have any data about how many multiple accounts there are on FB, but my anecdotal experience suggests that there are many. I also think that it would be very interesting to actually take a survey about that, and about how many people would like to have multiple identities without violating the TOS. About resharing, of course if you use the same real name in both services that would't be different from circles - it would just make it much harder to reshare, but by no way impossible. That's not my wife's use case. But if you use different names, tracing you becomes pretty difficult.