[FoRK] The death of email?

[Adam L Beberg]

Lucas Gonze wrote on 1/21/2008 2:29 PM:
> It's not spam that they object to -- myspace is crawling with it.
> It's open access.  These users are seeking to be in sealed
> environments.  The Compuserve model is undead.

Facebook used to be closed, and cool. Now it's not, and oh so not.

In the end, it all boils down to where the women feel comfortable going,
and how long you can keep it that way. In my past observations, this
ends the exact second someone says "lets make money" anywhere in the
company.

In the facebook example it was .edu students only, period. Everyone was
safe from the kiddies AND the adults. Just like the old days of the
pre-.com internet. Sadly, that demographic is small, smart, and immune
as heck to advertising and hostile to corporate crap of any kind. They
had to let in monkeys that would click on ads. A few rounds of massive
privacy violations later, everyone locked their info down tight, and the
next safe place is ... wait, telling you would ruin it!

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Humans can handle ~150 relationships, that's it. Social networking has
yet to embrace this fact and realize noone needs social networking to
deal with that. This too is a problem we already solved.

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- Adam L. Beberg



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Adam L. Beberg
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