Improving social media by making social graphs temporary

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/technology/social-media-privacy.html

by username223 • 8 years ago

3 2 8 years ago

kyoob• 8 years ago

I worry that giving users a "clean up my graph" button is just going to increase the value of user data, since it'll no longer have stale connections or reflected tastes.

username223• 8 years ago

That may be true (e.g. Facebook knows my musical tastes as of 12 years ago, which aren't relevant today), but I might be willing to pay that price in exchange for transience. A social network that resisted bulk archiving by third parties, and removed content in a permanent and legally-binding way after a given interval, would be providing a genuinely useful service. When you put something up on the regular web, its lifetime is completely out of your control. Sure, there would be screenshots and individual copying, but such a service could prevent bulk mirroring.

Improving social media by making social graphs temporary

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