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That's because you used FB to register instead of creating your own account. I suggest doing that in future, and use a password manager.
At one point Spotify were requiring users to link their accounts to Facebook. http://www.whathifi.com/news/spotify-no-longer-requires-face...
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I was thinking primarily for close friends, but for broader contacts, I agree with you, so I was thinking of a system that would allow them to unsubscribe from certain topics (e.g. politics)
How do you unsubscribe from certain topics? Would you have to email your friend and ask him or her to not tell you about politics? There's a whole lot of social pressure that means people are reluctant to do that.
So if that person clicked link #1, the token in the link is verified that it was created for that email address, and then it's noted in a database. In the future, if person X sends another email for that category, it won't go to that person. I'm thinking the sender wouldn't even know that the person unsubscribed
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What if it is still 1-on-1 communication; so, imagine this: I use an app to write the email, select a group or set of contacts, and the system sends out a 1-on-1 style email to each one of those contacts?
Your original premise, as I understood it, was to send a message to a group of people and possibly have people comment on it. With your new proposal, the recipients would not be able to see each other's responses. It also will shift the burden solely to you to answer any questions or provide clarification. If recipients were able to see other recipient responses, they could do some of the work for you. But, for all t…
Email wasn't designed to be used the way we use it now. It's not a to-do list protocol. In fact, as Paul Graham has put it, it's a disastrously bad todo list (Source: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html ) It's not a messaging protocol - email was never built for conversations, which is why conversations over email often get clunky, confusing and finding some piece of information later is near-impossible. No wond…
Email was built for conversations. Reverse in everything read to people forcing by that ruined Office Microsoft unfortunately.
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It means deleting your Facebook account will also prevent you logging into those other services. I had to delete a Spotify account and start over after I initially signed up via a Facebook login. (I should note that the Spotify staff were amazingly helpful and actually migrated me over to an email-login account when asked.)
That's because you used FB to register instead of creating your own account. I suggest doing that in future, and use a password manager.
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> and you can get drunk with your friends without your aunt knowing. Unless your friends are on facebook. If that's the case then there's some second-hand facebooking/instagramming that you have to be aware of.
Real friends don't care if you are on Facebook or not.
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I recently had a manager say the same thing to me about Slack. The founders were apparently trolling the tech channels and my name didn't come up enough. Mostly because I was busy working and not incessantly spamming giphy nonsense. Needless to say I quit.
Some workplaces have the "fish-bowl" feeling, and Slack can really amplify that. Imagine having alerts come into a channel where your boss's boss is watching you acknowledge them, DM'ing him critiques of your work in realtime.
One of our founders left herself logged in on a QA device, needless to say the entire team got to read her emails for two weeks without her knowledge.
Email wasn't designed to be used the way we use it now. It's not a to-do list protocol. In fact, as Paul Graham has put it, it's a disastrously bad todo list (Source: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html ) It's not a messaging protocol - email was never built for conversations, which is why conversations over email often get clunky, confusing and finding some piece of information later is near-impossible. No wond…
Email was built for conversations. Reverse in everything read to people forcing by that ruined Office Microsoft unfortunately.
Sort of like - I'll send this piece of information out, and maybe I'll get something in response. Maybe I won't.
The reason nothing has replaced email yet, even tough it's an old and clonky protocol is because it's an open standard and people don't make standards any more. Today you make services (most often based on HTTP because it's a protocol any 20yr old junior programmer can handle) that are locked in, harvesting has much data about it's users as possible desperately hoping that it could monetize on this data one day.
Nearly every other 'email killer' gets both of these things badly wrong.
I actually wish e-mail were used more. I want my relatives, my spouse, my friends to use e-mail. I'm not quite sure how to convince them, though. It generally feels like they'd rather use Facebook or WhatsApp or whatever's in fashion at the moment. Any tips? Do I just have to sign up to all of the different chat apps and write bots to forward them to me or something?