Friday, September 08, 2006

Addendum

I told Alex I'd post this:


Joe Wojciechowski: dude
Joe Wojciechowski: have you seen facebook
Alex Van Valkenburgh: NSA got to it
Joe Wojciechowski: oya
Joe Wojciechowski: i must be the only person who likes the new homepage
Alex Van Valkenburgh: i don't really care one way or another about how it changed
Alex Van Valkenburgh: you can kill every one of the things it says you did, anyway
Joe Wojciechowski: yeah
Joe Wojciechowski: it's really dumb
Joe Wojciechowski: this is true 1984
Alex Van Valkenburgh: NSA?
Joe Wojciechowski: facebook introduces a feature that, essentially, shows in gory detail exactly what you're putting out there on the internet
Joe Wojciechowski: and people want to revert it back to when they thought they had some semblance of privacy
Joe Wojciechowski: even though all of the privacy settings are 100% the same
Alex Van Valkenburgh: :D
Joe Wojciechowski: "oh noes suddenly people can see all the public stuff i'm doing on the internet"
Alex Van Valkenburgh: yeah, it doesn't show you anything you couldn't find out before
Alex Van Valkenburgh: not like "sent a private message to ___"
Joe Wojciechowski: the main complaint is that now it's "too easy" to find stuff out
Joe Wojciechowski: huh?
Alex Van Valkenburgh: :D
Joe Wojciechowski: so why sign up
Alex Van Valkenburgh: it should be like "this dude viewed pictures of this chick for an inordinately long period of time, leading to only one conclusion"
Joe Wojciechowski: what's the point if you're going to make changes for your friends to find out, but want to make them dig for it
Joe Wojciechowski: why not just say "you did X"
Joe Wojciechowski: because you did
Joe Wojciechowski: you fucker
Joe Wojciechowski: you fucking idiot
Alex Van Valkenburgh: :D
Joe Wojciechowski: god
Joe Wojciechowski: just pisses me off how hypocritical people are
Joe Wojciechowski: and such a large portion of the userbase, too
Joe Wojciechowski: they're perfectly fine using a social website just as long as nothing they do socially is posted
Joe Wojciechowski: ok
Alex Van Valkenburgh: :D


That basically says it.