Facebook insists that things are public or private, while in the human world 99% of things are meant to be "kind of private"—naturally limited to their time and audience that is there. Subverting this social norm around ambient privacy was one reason Google glasses were so hated
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Anyway I just wrote a very good essay about this and it has a picture and a footnote. https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm …
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Also this thing I wrote in 2011. "We have a name for the kind of person who collects a detailed, permanent dossier on everyone they interact with, with the intent of using it to manipulate others for personal advantage - we call that person a sociopath" https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/ …pic.twitter.com/WnR63I5RRV
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Ambient vs Adult Contemporary vs College Rock privacy
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Privacy'n'Bass
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I’ve seen this happen elsewhere. Is this because they trawl for cookies and then effectively clone whatever the hell is there? Is some form of segregated cookie jar an answer?
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Awkward question: whose social norms? An americans or a Dutch person? French? My point is that Facebook has no real grasp of any of them so to a lot of us the aggressive defense of a small thing just seems crazy and myopic.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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