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Re: Social network that keeps you guessing

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On 2014-02-17, wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is the kind of thing that I totally do not understand, which
> means that it will probably become hugely popular. Should this make me
> weep for the future of humanity, or am I just a grumpy old man that
> refuses to have any fun?
>
> ''Secret is "anonymish." It's a feed of gossip created by the contacts
> in your iPhone, but labeled only as being from a "friend" or "friend
> of a friend." (Popular secrets from elsewhere around the world also
> surface, labeled only by their point of geographic origin.) Who said
> this? Is it true? I think I might know who this is talking about.
> Secret is Facebook as a masquerade ball, Twitter without the
> self-promotion, Google+'s private sharing done right. It's the
> curiosity gap as a social network, and it also serves as a critique of
> all the others. Elsewhere you are inauthentic and dull, it seems to
> say. Secret is a place to be yourself.''

This is awesome and horrifying, so about right for Web 3.0.  :)
Somewhere out there, and I've searched but not found it, is a list of
"start up ideas that suck," joke being they are descriptions of things
that got hugely popular, like for Twitter:

"It's software that allows you to publish updates about your life, but
only about two sentences at a time (140 chars)."   Sounds awful, but
obviously it was a hit.  Other things described were - if I remember
correctly - itunes, facebook, maybe the ipod?

Anyway, on that basis, teenagers will instantly be fawning over - and
eventually committing suicide because of - this pretty soon.

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Social network that keeps you guessing wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-17 17:32 +0000
  Re: Social network that keeps you guessing dialmove <dialmove@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 10:05 +0000
  Re: Social network that keeps you guessing RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-18 20:05 +0000
  Re: Social network that keeps you guessing Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-18 16:56 -0800
  Re: Social network that keeps you guessing "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-19 16:08 +0000

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