Comments on: The New AOL.com Gets All Social and Stuff http://voices.allthingsd.com/20081031/the-new-aolcom-gets-all-social-and-stuff/ from other Web sites Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:42:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mac Beach http://voices.allthingsd.com/20081031/the-new-aolcom-gets-all-social-and-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-842 Mac Beach Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:03:32 +0000 http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=5572#comment-842 Hopefully this downturn will put a lot of this social networking stuff out of its misery. I have or have had accounts on most of these services for as long as they've existed. Safely populated with fake names dates of birth etc. Problem is that everyone I've talked to about "linking-up" on these things is either totally disinterested or even more paranoid than I am about placing their actual personal information on the web. Most of the stories that come out about these things are not success stories, they are failure stories: Famous people being found out because they or some relative of their put too much info online. There is at best a niche market for this kind of stuff until the point in time when credit card, banking and personal records technology has been made totally foolproof, and I think that is a long way off. Hopefully this downturn will put a lot of this social networking stuff out of its misery.

I have or have had accounts on most of these services for as long as they’ve existed. Safely populated with fake names dates of birth etc.

Problem is that everyone I’ve talked to about “linking-up” on these things is either totally disinterested or even more paranoid than I am about placing their actual personal information on the web.

Most of the stories that come out about these things are not success stories, they are failure stories: Famous people being found out because they or some relative of their put too much info online.

There is at best a niche market for this kind of stuff until the point in time when credit card, banking and personal records technology has been made totally foolproof, and I think that is a long way off.

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