Comments on: Learning from my children, part 97 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/11/18/learning-from-my-children-part-97/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nic Brisbourne http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/11/18/learning-from-my-children-part-97/comment-page-1/#comment-227803 Nic Brisbourne Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:15:49 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/11/18/learning-from-my-children-part-97/#comment-227803 Interesting post. On reflection we shouldn't be surprised that people are finding ways to bend the existing functionality of their favourite sites to deliver their privacy requirements. After all that is the way it happens offline as well - missed calls, pressing the red button, text message replies etc. I have long been thinking about elegant technology based solutions to segmented privacy - you may have seen Microsoft's concentric circles of friends approach. Maybe I have been looking in the wrong place. Interesting post. On reflection we shouldn’t be surprised that people are finding ways to bend the existing functionality of their favourite sites to deliver their privacy requirements. After all that is the way it happens offline as well – missed calls, pressing the red button, text message replies etc.

I have long been thinking about elegant technology based solutions to segmented privacy – you may have seen Microsoft’s concentric circles of friends approach. Maybe I have been looking in the wrong place.

]]> By: Mark Samuels http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/11/18/learning-from-my-children-part-97/comment-page-1/#comment-227623 Mark Samuels Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:24:04 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/11/18/learning-from-my-children-part-97/#comment-227623 For me and my mates, Web 2.0 is selective - some are part of the interface, some are not. Some like being part of the networking opportunity, others do not. But I know people from the younger generation - and I know that I am starting to get old when I start saying that (I am only 33) - that use Facebook as a free alternative to text messaging. For younger individuals, Facebook is a non-option tool. If you don't use it, you don't know about events, opportunities - or in your daughter's case - a changed phone number. And to think, most of my mates are struggling to work out how the technology works and how to list their favourite bands... For me and my mates, Web 2.0 is selective – some are part of the interface, some are not. Some like being part of the networking opportunity, others do not.

But I know people from the younger generation – and I know that I am starting to get old when I start saying that (I am only 33) – that use Facebook as a free alternative to text messaging.

For younger individuals, Facebook is a non-option tool. If you don’t use it, you don’t know about events, opportunities – or in your daughter’s case – a changed phone number.

And to think, most of my mates are struggling to work out how the technology works and how to list their favourite bands…

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