See, in the past three days since Facebook announced major new changes to its social contract with all of us, I’ve been able to study my friends’ personal musical tastes in a way I couldn’t just four days ago.
Here, come on over to the new Pandora on my screen. I click on “Friends’ Music” and now let’s look through what I can see.
If the end of privacy is so evil, so awful, so unthinkable, then why am I liking the new Pandora so much?
See, in the past three days since Facebook announced major new changes to its social contract with all of us, I’ve been able to study my friends’ personal musical tastes in a way I couldn’t just four days ago.
Here, come on over to the new Pandora on my screen. I click on “Friends’ Music” and now let’s look through what I can see.
I see that Aaron Roe Fulkerson, MindTouch’s Inc founder and CEO, listened to Toad the Wet Sprocket. I bet he didn’t quite realize that I’d be able to see that a week ago.
I see that Adrian Otto, chief of research at the Rackspace Cloud (where I work at), listens to Kenny G. I bet he didn’t quite realize that I’d be able to see that a week ago. Aside: Kenny G, really dude? Heheh.
I see that Alan Cooper, father of Visual Basic, and head of a famous software design studio that bears his name, listens to the Barenaked Ladies. I bet he didn’t quite realize that I’d be able to see that a week ago.
Should I keep going? I have 1,300 friends over on Facebook and a lot of them use Pandora.
To me this is freaking awesome. I have found more music in the past week than I’ve found in the past year.
Oh, yeah, and you can see my own account and see how my musical tastes are changing thanks to this new feature.
But, on the other hand, this new feature has heralded a new age where we move closer to the end of privacy.
While listening to music that now is shared by all my friends I’ve been reading thousands of words about how Facebook screwed its contract with us to keep our stuff private. Leer más “An inch closer to the end of privacy (thanks Facebook!)”
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