"Let’s go back to music: It is meaningful if I tell you that I really like the avant-garde music by Olivier Messiaen. It’s also meaningful to confess that I sometimes relax by listening to Pink Floyd. But if this kind of communication is replaced by a constant pipeline of what’s queued up in Spotify, it all becomes meaningless. There’s no “sharing” at all. Frictionless sharing isn’t better sharing; it’s the absence of sharing"
~ Mike Loukides, Via Nicholas Carr Interesting Point - I would say that there is some value to seeing Spotify songs come across the wire on Facebook, and I’ve definitely listened to them myself, curious to see what others’ tastes were, but there will be more value to a comment about how music is used, how it makes you feel, or WHY you were listening to it than just the fact that it was played. I’ll have to think on this some more…
Facebook is down…
But no one knew how to contact anybody to let them know. What a lonely, sad state of affairs that must have been for those feverishly Googling other social networking options.
Onward and upward Tumblr.
Privacy Issues? Google Engineers Leave Facebook in Droves
I’m not sure I dig Facebook’s new “Instant Personalization” model. The fact that you can’t opt out of everything at once is disconcerting, especially if it means I’m leaking my network’s information to third party sites without knowing it. Worth suspending my account? Weigh in.
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