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Pinterest II
So, I got my invite... Apparently I have to sign up with either a facebook or a Twitter account. No possibility of creating an independent account. 'But we will ALWAYS let you control sharing', I am promised.
Yeah, there is very little more likely to make me say 'eff off' to a service than that.
The question now is whether I make a dummy Twitter account just to be allowed on another site... Right now I think I'm too affronted.
*iz miffed*
ETA: Clicking on the 'sign up with Twitter page' it takes me to an app page on Twitter which says:
This application will be able to: Read Tweets from your timeline, See who you follow, and follow new people, Update your profile, Post Tweets for you.
This application will not be able to: Access your direct messages, See your Twitter password.
Well, isn't that nice it wouldn't be able to get at my password? !! Never mind it would have access to pretty much anything someone with the password could do anyway.
I really cannot bear this creeping process of people joining up the web. It's all to create richer baskets of demographics data to raise the price of advertising, yet the whole thing is so disingenuously presented in the patronising idea that people find it too complicated to have multiple log-ins: 'we require facebook and Twitter to make it easier to find people you know and reduce spam,' it says. I mean, come on: I don't want to find people I know and your site is proper bugged if your small start-up is getting so much spam that you have to piggyback off the user-screening of something so widespread as Twitter.
Do not get me started on Google's bullshit and the patronising messages they've started putting at every point of user engagement.
/rant
Yeah, there is very little more likely to make me say 'eff off' to a service than that.
The question now is whether I make a dummy Twitter account just to be allowed on another site... Right now I think I'm too affronted.
*iz miffed*
ETA: Clicking on the 'sign up with Twitter page' it takes me to an app page on Twitter which says:
This application will be able to: Read Tweets from your timeline, See who you follow, and follow new people, Update your profile, Post Tweets for you.
This application will not be able to: Access your direct messages, See your Twitter password.
Well, isn't that nice it wouldn't be able to get at my password? !! Never mind it would have access to pretty much anything someone with the password could do anyway.
I really cannot bear this creeping process of people joining up the web. It's all to create richer baskets of demographics data to raise the price of advertising, yet the whole thing is so disingenuously presented in the patronising idea that people find it too complicated to have multiple log-ins: 'we require facebook and Twitter to make it easier to find people you know and reduce spam,' it says. I mean, come on: I don't want to find people I know and your site is proper bugged if your small start-up is getting so much spam that you have to piggyback off the user-screening of something so widespread as Twitter.
Do not get me started on Google's bullshit and the patronising messages they've started putting at every point of user engagement.
/rant
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...the whole thing is so disingenuously presented in the patronising idea that people find it too complicated to have multiple log-ins...
Even more disappointing is that there are real, live humans who actually think this is so and that having everything tied together (the easier to be found and sold to, my dear) is no way threatening, insulting or demeaning.
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Even more disappointing is that there are real, live humans who actually think this is so and that having everything tied together (the easier to be found and sold to, my dear) is no way threatening, insulting or demeaning.
The thing is, I don't care if people want to join up their online life - I don't really have a problem with the ubiquitous 'sign in with facebook' button (though I personally think that's a terrible idea), but the idea that there shouldn't even be an option to use one of these services independent of a central networking site really, really upsets me. I don't want the whole web to become a facebook app!
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I think it may unfortunately be too late.
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