My twitter ID is martingeddes.
I’m still at the “why would I bother?” stage. Yet another noisy digital child needing care and feeding.
Sure, I can see the benefit in decoupling sending and receiving, cf being CC/BCC’d to death on email. It’s much lighter than blogging, more conversational.
But it’s all far too manual. I’m still refusing to ever, ever, ever have to describe my social network by hand.
AltaVista wanted you to put keywords into your web page to work out what it meant. Google just took what people were already doing and joined the dots.
I don’t want my social graph to be portable. I want it to be invisible.
Until someone can take my email, IM, phone, blog, comment data — stuff I already do — and work out who I care about right now, I’d feel a twat to be a twit.
UPDATE: The security model is broken too. Why on earth would I tell them my Gmail ID and login — the same credentials that let you buy stuff in my name using my Google Checkout? Thanks, but no thanks.
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Are you sure it needs the password for your gmail id? I thought you just needed to enter the id on it's own for the IM to work.
Posted by: at April 4, 2008 05:01 PM