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Re: Not Sharing Is Caring

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Post by anamax » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 2:46 PM UTC

ay wrote: post #43

nostromo wrote: post #12

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I've personally had this play out with a number of services. LastFM comes to mind. I really enjoyed having a persistent record of what I listened to for my own use and for finding new music. However, I stopped using the service because, honestly, I'm not exactly proud of every song that makes it to my most-played list. LastFM let's you remove a song from your profile if I remember correctly, but it was easier to not…

"I'm not exactly proud of every song that makes it to my most-played list." It would be very interesting for me if you might write up a few lines on "why", if you can.

For me, it goes to the fact that I'm not the same person to different people. The fact that I'm willing to share some things with certain people does not imply that I'm willing to share everything with those people.

Very few systems make it easy to manage multiple (and shifting) sharing relationships, so not sharing by default is the easiest thing to manage.

Re: Not Sharing Is Caring

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Post by RussRomStanBety » Fri, Sep 23, 2011, 9:24 PM UTC

saturdaysaint wrote: post #44

shuttlebrad wrote: post #41

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Well, the fiddly part so far seems to be that's set to a single level (announce/don't announce) and every different app needs its own mute button. Spotify, for example, will happily announce to the world whatever you happen to be listening to, and there's no simple way to hit "mute". So you're going to need to build a separate "mute" button into every app, on every platform, and have enough trust that it will work ..…

You can easily shut down any kind of activity. I clicked on the settings for an Rdio song I auto-posted and the option of "Don't show this kind of activity from Rdio" (paraphrasing) showed up. I hate to single you out, but the amount of blatantly unresearched, inaccurate statements in this discussion is really disappointing. This is a powerful, well-implemented (easy to opt-in/opt-out of any broadcasting on an app by…

So what you are saying is maintenance! maintenance! and more maintenance.

This is no longer a great user experience and it's not longer a social network... No, this is without a doubt a media venture that will do anything to make their advertisers happy... at the expense of the users.

I wonder if you see your own contradiction? You had to go out of your way to make a point that users need to now attend the settings for every single product they use and maintain additional information. It seems that with every year things get more and more out of hand

Today, as an FB user I'm not happy. For one, I had to download a plug in for the new ticker (a news feed with in a news feed?) just to get rid of the annoyance. Tomorrow we will have to deal with a dozen more ticks.

Re: Not Sharing Is Caring

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Post by saturdaysaint » Sat, Sep 24, 2011, 8:59 PM UTC

RussRomStanBety wrote: post #52

saturdaysaint wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can easily shut down any kind of activity. I clicked on the settings for an Rdio song I auto-posted and the option of "Don't show this kind of activity from Rdio" (paraphrasing) showed up. I hate to single you out, but the amount of blatantly unresearched, inaccurate statements in this discussion is really disappointing. This is a powerful, well-implemented (easy to opt-in/opt-out of any broadcasting on an app by…

So what you are saying is maintenance! maintenance! and more maintenance. This is no longer a great user experience and it's not longer a social network... No, this is without a doubt a media venture that will do anything to make their advertisers happy... at the expense of the users. I wonder if you see your own contradiction? You had to go out of your way to make a point that users need to now attend the settings f…

No contradiction: I had to turn on Rdio'd FB app to broadcast my songs to begin with. Everything is opt in, not opt out. If you're not interested in that, you don't maintain anything.