Comment of the Day: Lifestreaming Irony
In our post 35 Ways to Stream Your Life, Josh Catone listed 35 apps that aggregate all the little bits of your online life. Commenter matthewvb sees some irony in the current craze for lifestreaming, pointing out that "a little over a year ago (Sept 06) when Facebook launched their news feed feature [...] it was met with huge resistance from the Facebook community." Yet now, aggregating details of what you're doing online has become a natural social activity.
Good point, so congratulations Matthew, you've won a $30 Amazon voucher - courtesy of our competition sponsors AdaptiveBlue and their Amazon WishList Widget. Here's his full comment:
"I find it really interesting that a little over a year ago (Sept 06) when Facebook launched their news feed feature that it was met with huge resistance from the Facebook community. There were groups started and claims that users were going to leave -- all because they didn't want their personal information broadcasted like the news feed does.
Now we have dozens upon dozens of websites that do just that; and the global web community has not only endorsed them but pushed them forward to be "the" sites to be on. Especially as more and more people join different social networks, the need for these aggregating/life-streaming apps has become a necessity as opposed to an invasion of privacy."
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The facebook fact that the news feed tells everyone everyactivity done by the user is absolutely correct. on one hand they say we should respect user's privacy and on ther other hand they are telling everyone the whereabouts of the user.
The facebook fact that the news feed tells everyone everyactivity done by the user is absolutely correct. on one hand they say we should respect user's privacy and on ther other hand they are telling everyone the whereabouts of the user.
I have another point of view:
More and more Web services we adopt shares publicly our content and bits of our activities... But we are not aware about anybody could think if they aggregate all our personal data.
If you have a lifestream build with our public data, you could easily check what anybody could get about yourself... And use privacy control purposed by any Web services.
In this way, I'm afraid by some lifestream services (like FriendFeed) which saved old items and not allow us to delete them. And somes anothers privacy problems...
I invite you to read my LiFE2Front's rules which I advice to another competitors :
http://www.life2front.com/privacy/
Newsfeed wasn't opt-in, lifestreaming is. It's all super super useful - I believe the newsfeed on Facebook had a much bigger impact on the web than the overhyped platform.