05-20-2012, 02:08 PM
Ooo, neat. I'd have to look it up but I imagine it's an example of a law with a good basis (privacy protections) being worded overly zealously (given the lawsuits, I guess "opt-in" is not an option, which is dumb).
That explains why movie watching isn't more of a community event. Certainly takes care of what I thought would be the next most obvious direction to take social media. (Social sharing of what movie you watched and if you liked it or not is at least of SOME interest, unlike most of what people post about.)
That's the real problem social media faces, though -- privacy concerns. People have to opt-in and then security needs to be good. If they don't opt-in then it's not going to be very interesting and if they don't trust it, they won't opt-in. "Super Sad True Love Story" poked a lot of fun at the future of social media, but really, privacy concerns may prevent it from ever being as big a part of our lives as it was in that book. Virtually everything they did would be considered an awful violation of privacy today.
Basically I have my doubts about the future of social media, specifically its ability to expand in sensible ways, or even stay as a trusted, interesting, long term feature in people's lives. I like Facebook for the ability to keep in touch with some people but for the most part I wouldn't miss it if it went away. I certainly wouldn't pay for it as a service.
That explains why movie watching isn't more of a community event. Certainly takes care of what I thought would be the next most obvious direction to take social media. (Social sharing of what movie you watched and if you liked it or not is at least of SOME interest, unlike most of what people post about.)
That's the real problem social media faces, though -- privacy concerns. People have to opt-in and then security needs to be good. If they don't opt-in then it's not going to be very interesting and if they don't trust it, they won't opt-in. "Super Sad True Love Story" poked a lot of fun at the future of social media, but really, privacy concerns may prevent it from ever being as big a part of our lives as it was in that book. Virtually everything they did would be considered an awful violation of privacy today.
Basically I have my doubts about the future of social media, specifically its ability to expand in sensible ways, or even stay as a trusted, interesting, long term feature in people's lives. I like Facebook for the ability to keep in touch with some people but for the most part I wouldn't miss it if it went away. I certainly wouldn't pay for it as a service.