The real identity crisis of the web

http://weizhou.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/from-dating-experience-to-real-identity-crisis-of-the-web/

by sp332 • 17 years ago

7 9 17 years ago

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dasil0032• 17 years ago

Not the most insightful article in the world, but I think it raises a valid point. The way the wind is blowing in silicon valley is all towards ever-increasing openness with user data. This generates both a lot of utility for users and a lot of long-term risk. For the reality TV generation this has a powerful narcissistic allure, and it seems most young people are slow to recognize the risks which often only bite them years or decades later.

However I think we're in for a sea change here. Making data public has become the conventional wisdom (witness Blippy) in the valley. Facebook saw the dollar signs gleaming in their pupils leading them to push everyone to go public with their data. Corporate marketing drones everywhere are sharpening their pencils to see how they can creatively extract a few more billion from their customer data.

All of this is going to lead to massive disillusionment with an open online lifestyle. Privacy is going to make a major comeback in the decade to come.

antonovka2• 17 years ago

All of this is going to lead to massive disillusionment with an open online lifestyle. Privacy is going to make a major comeback in the decade to come.

Or, alternatively, it's going to lead to an entire generation's total acceptance of human foibles as it becomes clear just how universally human our failings truly are.

pmichaud• 17 years ago

This is my fond hope. I don't know if we're capable of that (yet?) as a species.

abi• 17 years ago

Yes, I think more openness leads to better lives as Paul Buchheit opined recently. http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/11/open-as-in-water-fl...

dasil0032• 17 years ago

Holy shit, I am witnessing myself turning into a cantankerous old fogey as we speak.

mitjak• 17 years ago

Couldn't stand all the typos.

sp332• 17 years ago

She's Chinese, she is young and talented. Cut her some slack. http://www.weizhoudesign.com/about.html

mahmud• 17 years ago

Now look at what fashionable girls do for dating : You meet someone in the bar, you Google his name, you ask your personal lawyer to count how much money he make..and then you choose if you go out a date with him. Google becomes our biggest obstacle of finding true love.

Google probably saved you from being manipulated by someone so cunning. Sheesh.

marsmatrix• 17 years ago

Rejection augmented with Moore's Law? I am officially doomed.

The real identity crisis of the web

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