I agree with you, and I think that Christopher Poole (moot) explained it very well at the Web 2.0 Summit 2011[1]. > Google and Facebook would have you believe

I agree with you, and I think that Christopher Poole (moot) explained it very well at the Web 2.0 Summit 2011[1]. > Google and Facebook would have you believe that you're a mirror, but in fact, we're more like diamonds. > Identity is prismatic Those quotes may not be the best ones, but he explains well the dangers of the concept of identity according to Google and Facebook. An article about it was also featured here[2]. > If you try to use one to help the other you will produce a soup of irrelevant garbage. I definitely agree. My different interests already enter in conflict on Youtube; and Google got trouble dealing with the fact that 90% of my searches will be in English and the last 10% will be in French, and I do not want it to filter my results towards one language or another. 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e3Zs74IH0mc http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e... 2: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3123086 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3123086