Oh hell no

26 June 2007 2 Comments

Plaxo plans to let friends keep track of their contacts’ Web surfing habits, paralleling a feature fuelling the rapid rise of Facebook, which allows users of all ages to create private networks to connect to their immediate friends. Watching and learning what your friends are doing on the Web—and being watched yourself—is today’s hottest online trend. — New York Times

And people wonder why I never join the online social networking sites. It’s because they pull crap like this. I love my friends, but I’m not turning my life into a fishbowl for you.

Erm. Beyond what I voluntarily do in this blog, obviously.

The Wide, Weird Web

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mmm says 11 July 2007

Why not? You’d make a fine guppy. Besides, fishbowls can magnify us in ways that may be fascinating enough to provoke viewers into throwing small coins in . . .

Halt Near X says 11 July 2007

This fishbowl’s not so bad; I kind of like it.

But it’s my fishbowl. I’m not swimming in anyone else’s fishbowl. You have no idea what they put in the water. Ew.

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