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This just further proves how disconnected Mark & Friends are from the real world. In real life, people talk very differently when they're: - around their frie
by ChrisNorstrom 14y ago
This just further proves how disconnected Mark & Friends are from the real world.
In real life, people talk very differently when they're:
- around their friends
- with their family
- with their lover
- in public
- at work
- online
So this "one identity" + "real name policy" + "privacy is dead" nonsense is just disheartening. There will always be a need for humans to keep secrets, to have separate identities, to keep the people in their lives separate, and the topics they talk about separate. "Sign in with facebook" just breaks all those rules.
Not everyone shits and showers with the bathroom door open.
- SHITMAN 14y agoThat last sentence was beautiful.
- pitchups 14y agoI agree. The need to share and talk differently with different people, is precisely the problem that Google tried to solve with their concept of circles in Google+. However, the fact that they also required real names and a single identity, makes it a partial and therefore ineffective solution.
- winter_blue 14y agoOne serious problem with the way Google+ does circles is that once you post something, you _cannot_ change whom you've shared it with.
- yuhong 14y agoWell, keep in mind that the people you already shared the post with can always save it locally.
- yuhong 14y agoYea, I am not for real name policies either. But I do want problems that would be caused by them to be fixed if possible, though not every one of them can be easily fixed, of course. For example, legacy PR based on one-way control of the message is fundamentally flawed. This reminds me of one of my own HN submission, BTW: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4160528 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4160528