There is more to the activity here than meets the eye.
It's trying to, though. So is Skype. I don't feel that there should be an internet persona hub at all. Each different place should always be segregated and insulated as completely as possible. If you see me on another site, I'll be acting differently under a different name, because that's something I am afforded with a complete separation. Combining accounts and limiting name changes works counter to that goal. Anonymity is very important, in my opinion, because it takes the pressure off of you as a person. You don't have to pretend to be something you're not for the sake of others. You don't have to live up to expectations. You don't have to be what other people want you to be. People say that it's an excuse for bad behavior and, yes, it can be. But it can also be an artistic outlet for those too afraid to show those who they interact with on a personal basis for fear of their judgment. It can also be a release and escape from the world where you're getting laughed at by your peers for your awkwardness. It can also be a place to just try something new without worrying about the consequences. A lot of people are weighed down by their identities, their worries, their lives. Anonymity allows these poor souls to take a break and just be themselves. If you think I'm just hiding or trying to get away with something, fine, you're one of the people I was trying to get away from.
Maybe certain folk would notice you more if you were around more. But I forgive you.
Youtube is a video hosting site. Guess what, that's what revealing information about yourself does. Data mining is a real thing that people use to predict your actions and control them with feedback. The whole point of integrating you personal identity for them is to make data mining easier. So even though you didn't say that it's what comes of it.
He's complaining about youtube, which is NOT a social networking site. I also would like to point out that you're wrong. A social networking site is actually supposed to be an easier way to COMMUNICATE with your FRIENDS, not an easier way for BUSINESS to MAKE MONEY off of you.
First, his point really isn't valid, since this whole situation belies the trend towards the destruction on anonymity. Anonymity is equality. You can't be judged based on who you are if you have no name, you can only be judged on what you say and what you do. When you link together accounts and make everything personalized, you lose that. You make all of those things that people can prejudge you on a factor again. Would you have even talked to me if you knew I was a forty year old black man from New Jersey when we first met? What if I was older? What if I had a criminal record? When you kill anonymity, you make that the stuff that matters and the things we say become secondary. To a certain extent we have that in our handles because the history of the site forges a persistent identity, but it's still not as bad. My point is, it's not frivolous to value the thing that makes the internet special. It's not frivolous to value the only reason why I know any of you. I don't really see how it could since it was just a refresher. He's already aware that he has his share of detractors, what matters here is that he understands that he's being WORSE THAN THEM right now.
There are people who think you are singlehandedly making this site a very much worse place to be with your own threads, comments, habits, etcetera. However, almost none of them will tell you that to your face because they are being polite to you and respecting your right to say what you want to in spite of their own feelings. So maybe you should take a page out of their book and show a little mutual human respect.
There you go again.
I feel like you'll give people the wrong impression of our relationship if you keep asking me for such things.
I actually got it, so you shouldn't have given it away. But I bet you didn't intend the other half of it.
Maybe if you did actually fancy things you wouldn't have to rely on such a petty and insubstantial crutch, dawg.
I don't like that spelling.
You do realize that they're only doing this type of consolidation of accounts, voluntary or not, so that it's easier and more cost efficient to keep tabs on you and track you, so they can sell your information to advertisers or the government or whoever else wants it, right? I, personally, don't appreciate that at all. Also, the cuts down on passwords thing doesn't hold weight because you have set up a lot of browsers to have a single master pass for everything anyway. They are not doing this for you. They never do anything for you. They only care what you can do for them.
Cute.
I was gonna get him to figure that out on his own eventually, stop spoon feeding him.
Believe me, I am the gladdest of all that you're poking your head into the wonderful world of subtext and implications for the very first time just now. However, you're still doing it wrong.
Good, 'cause no one said that.
Most of them sucked. I will say that I managed to keep it relatively clean and not smelling like a fast food joint at least. Shhh, don't let the others hear.
They must be stopped.
Well, fuck them, then.
