facebook albums are outdated
Dear Facebook,
Your albums structure is outdated.
What do I mean? I mean that sorting multimedia information per picture vs movie file vs link for an article is outdated. Solely looking at pictures from a party does not fully recreate the remembrance. Maybe someone took a video. Why not throw that in there. Maybe I also think there is a useful link to go with it all? This one qualifies as well.
What I am saying is, maybe thinking about sorting content based on its form, we should sort it by topic/event. Imagine putting all your pictures and videos from a trip to Europe in one place. Not having to go back and forth around to connect the dots.
It’s just a thought. An idea.
Thanks.
v
the off/online you
I read an article on Social Media Today about the differences between people online and offline. The author was vividly dissecting what matters to online personalities and offline personalities and how the two are different. The arguments in the article may be well thought through but there is fundamental flaw in this thinking. I wholeheartedly disagree that people are different online and offline.
I believe people have one personality offline and online. I believe that there has been an apparent separation of off/online identity only because most of the people who use the internet and mobile technologies have grown into these technologies and not with them.
What it means is, the more integrated the technology in one’s life is, the bigger blur there is among these seemingly different personalities right now. I don’t think there are more than one personalities. I think it is only a different manifestation of a personality only given different stimuli that prompt different behavioural patterns. Yes, the internet speeds up things, makes us more connected etc etc, but that is just the fast lane for behaviour we are naturally prone to.
This is why to me with an increased integration of modern mobile and interactive technologies in our lives this blurr between personalities will be more obviously irrelevant.
This is why to me digital and traditional agencies should not be separated.
It’s all human behavior.
clouds (i still fall through them)
Much has been said about the information cloud and the virtues of it, the threats of it. Accessible information from everywhere, cloud computing tools accessible through everywhere; but with privacy concerns and also security concerns.
So far as users of up-to-date technologies, except for privacy concerns and hacking into one’s account, we have not been exposed much to this: what happens if the “cloud’s” servers get erased. Well, obviously what happens is thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of users lose data stored on these could servers. All of a sudden the cloud doesn’t hold us up in the air any more and we all fall down.
Seems to have happened to Digg following the revamp of the site. Once I had more than 300 Diggs, all what to me has been a valuable storage place for articles I might need to refer to. As of today, I’m down to 4. RIP precious Diggs from the past.
How much time until this happens to other clouds?
