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All the people I want to interact with regularly use Twitter/Facebook. There have been a few more attractive options that I would like them to move to (G+, Path

All the people I want to interact with regularly use Twitter/Facebook. There have been a few more attractive options that I would like them to move to (G+, Path, etc.), but they haven't budged. Now here's a new alternative that thinks they should pay to use a service they're already getting for free. Good luck trying to convince them, because I'm not going to bother this time.

drcube 14y ago
All the people I want to email are on hotmail. I'd like them to switch to gmail but they haven't budged. Well, I guess I have to stick with the email my friends use. Does this sound ridiculous? It should. It is equally ridiculous that users of one social network can't interact with users on another. This is the problem that needs to be fixed, not ads.
- rehack 14y ago
  Can't agree with you more. I had written the following about 3 months ago: In an Internet 1.0 world "Facebook", would have happened via a 'social' protocol on the Internet just like SMTP, and Zuckerberg would have been a hacker icon just like a Tim Berners Lee. And I went on to write: PS: If mails had happened in Internet 2.0 world. We would have gmail users only mailing to other gmail users and hotmail users only mailing to other hotmail users ... but actually gmail would not have happened as Sabeer Bhatia or Microsoft would have been still ruling the mail world ;-) ... But thankfully it did not turn out that way, as there was already a protocol called SMTP! The comment was this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3949048 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3949048 Edit: Added more relevant text