Comments on: Giving your friends the ability to opt in = or not = to having their data exported with you http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/giving-your-friends-the-ability-to-opt-in-or-not-to-having-their-data-exported-with-you Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:11:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: 4×4 Evo 2 » Giving your friends the ability to opt in = or not = to having … http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/giving-your-friends-the-ability-to-opt-in-or-not-to-having-their-data-exported-with-you#comment-243374 4×4 Evo 2 » Giving your friends the ability to opt in = or not = to having … Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:37:05 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/giving-your-friends-the-ability-to-opt-in-or-not-to-having-their-data-exported-with-you#comment-243374 [...] Ryan Block wrote an engrossing place today onHere’s a hurried excerptIf I concord to tell myself your someone on Facebook, that in no artefact implies that I’ve united to be your someone on Myspace, LinkedIn, or whatever haphazard PeopleAggregator-powered site. So modify in a best-case (for you) scenario, … [...] [...] Ryan Block wrote an engrossing place today onHere’s a hurried excerptIf I concord to tell myself your someone on Facebook, that in no artefact implies that I’ve united to be your someone on Myspace, LinkedIn, or whatever haphazard PeopleAggregator-powered site. So modify in a best-case (for you) scenario, … [...]

]]> By: Peter http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/giving-your-friends-the-ability-to-opt-in-or-not-to-having-their-data-exported-with-you#comment-243369 Peter Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:49:40 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/11/giving-your-friends-the-ability-to-opt-in-or-not-to-having-their-data-exported-with-you#comment-243369 Marc, I think Roger's thinking is a little backwards. He is trying to bring up a wall which is already taken down. I can export my gmail address book at the moment without my "friends" option-in. Once I export the data I can do whatever I want. That is why most social networks asks users to check IF their friends are already in the network. Translation...export your address book and invite your friends. So by sending someone an email you are basically opting-in and I think accepting a friendship invite is an opt-in to some extend. I think what we really need is opt-in on what so called friends can see or access. i.e control what data I am willing to share with X type of friends. Marc,

I think Roger’s thinking is a little backwards. He is trying to bring up a wall which is already taken down.

I can export my gmail address book at the moment without my “friends” option-in. Once I export the data I can do whatever I want. That is why most social networks asks users to check IF their friends are already in the network. Translation…export your address book and invite your friends.

So by sending someone an email you are basically opting-in and I think accepting a friendship invite is an opt-in to some extend.

I think what we really need is opt-in on what so called friends can see or access. i.e control what data I am willing to share with X type of friends.

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