So on a whim I've gone and gotten myself a Pinterest account. Wtf? What's this hype with this shit? No tags, crappy search function, rest of functionality blatantly copied over from tumblr/soup, no themes and the same shit-hipster-content as everywhere else. The only incentive - invite-only access. Yeah, as if that'll stop the idiots from coming there. And the cherry on top. Account creation via linking with fb/twitter (you can unlink later) - a paranoid, sorry, privacy concerned netizens, nightmare.
Fun fact: somewhere around Feb./Mar. 2004 the Internet had 750M users, fb reached the same amount in Nov. 2011 (all of Internet at that time was about 2,2 billion). As I've written before we used to browse the net, now we just scroll it. All of the content is filtered and siphoned into a single stream of information on a single page (which in itself, as a concept is a good thing considering the amount of raw data generated every second one'd have to go through to get to the morsels). However one little consequence of this that just keeps nagging at my noggin - the G-Men don't need to do anything about de-anonymizing the net, we're doing it for them with all the apps, linked-accounts, services we've let access other services who in turn have access to yet other ones just on the premise that they won't use our data for anything else except importing contacts. Why do I cringe with doubt? Guarantees? Change of terms of service, bitches! "All your content are belong to us."What guarantees? Mark Z. was wrong, privacy isn't dead, or rather it is, but it did not die of natural causes. Our laziness just kept gnawing at it piece by piece until there was nothing left.
Fun fact: somewhere around Feb./Mar. 2004 the Internet had 750M users, fb reached the same amount in Nov. 2011 (all of Internet at that time was about 2,2 billion). As I've written before we used to browse the net, now we just scroll it. All of the content is filtered and siphoned into a single stream of information on a single page (which in itself, as a concept is a good thing considering the amount of raw data generated every second one'd have to go through to get to the morsels). However one little consequence of this that just keeps nagging at my noggin - the G-Men don't need to do anything about de-anonymizing the net, we're doing it for them with all the apps, linked-accounts, services we've let access other services who in turn have access to yet other ones just on the premise that they won't use our data for anything else except importing contacts. Why do I cringe with doubt? Guarantees? Change of terms of service, bitches! "All your content are belong to us."What guarantees? Mark Z. was wrong, privacy isn't dead, or rather it is, but it did not die of natural causes. Our laziness just kept gnawing at it piece by piece until there was nothing left.
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