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From the article: "Oliver Cameron, founder of a private social network called Everyme, says most of the responsibility lies with developers. 'The apps that are

From the article: "Oliver Cameron, founder of a private social network called Everyme, says most of the responsibility lies with developers. 'The apps that are implementing this could do a better job,' he says. 'The average Facebook user has no clue what they're sharing.' I couldn't agree more with this sentiment. If we, the startup community, can't figure out a way of being transparent about our intentions with user's personal information in a way that makes sense to them, we will suffer a backlash. We risk facing a cultural shift where it becomes hip to "drop out" of a social online society. This has already started to some extent as people become more aware of the risks of oversharing (as pointed out in the article) but it could quickly become more pervasive.

unimpressive 14y ago
> We risk facing a cultural shift where it becomes hip to "drop out" of a social online society. And? While this might scare the sizable portion of HN readers who have money staked on social, I would see this as a net positive. EDIT: No but really, besides the Arab Spring social media has spammed the world with cute cat pictures and eaten away at the blogosphere. The portions eaten away are subsumed into one of the competing walled gardens. The web wasn't designed to be an echo chamber.
- smoyer 14y ago
  I'm not sure why this was down-voted ... isn't "dropping out" just the extreme version of reduced usage? There was an article posted last week that described users as being tired of FB and that there was a 30% drop in engagement (I'll link later if I can find it).
slig 14y ago
I disagree. The whole point of facebook apps is to spam and spread. If your shinny fb app doesn't post actions, then what's the point of building it on top of fb? Every other (successful) app is going to spam. FB shouldn't allow that in the first place.

unimpressive 14y ago

> We risk facing a cultural shift where it becomes hip to "drop out" of a social online society. And? While this might scare the sizable portion of HN readers who have money staked on social, I would see this as a net positive. EDIT: No but really, besides the Arab Spring social media has spammed the world with cute cat pictures and eaten away at the blogosphere. The portions eaten away are subsumed into one of the competing walled gardens. The web wasn't designed to be an echo chamber.

smoyer 14y ago
I'm not sure why this was down-voted ... isn't "dropping out" just the extreme version of reduced usage? There was an article posted last week that described users as being tired of FB and that there was a 30% drop in engagement (I'll link later if I can find it).

slig 14y ago

I disagree. The whole point of facebook apps is to spam and spread. If your shinny fb app doesn't post actions, then what's the point of building it on top of fb? Every other (successful) app is going to spam. FB shouldn't allow that in the first place.