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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

#503 — Social network that keeps you guessing

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.''

More info at "http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/17/5419814/open-secret-how-two-google-refugees-built-the-next-big-thing-in"

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#520

El Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:32:07 -0004, wjwlsn escribió:

> 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?


Christopher Poole wrote recently of the benefits of anonymity and how it 
can provide a boost to creativity.

Though, since Christopher Poole is the creator of 4chan, you can take his 
views with a grain of salt, and your concerns for the future of humanity 
are justified.

http://chrishateswriting.com/post/76431353368/the-anonymity-i-know

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#536

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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#551

Sounds like an awesome way to get you to consent to the strip-mining of 
your address book by some random company!

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#589

>  I could have my address book strip mined today just by signing up for gmail
gmail will only get the email addresses, this sounds like an app for the iphone 
that can read all your contacts names and phone numbers.


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