One of the problems with monitoring such tools is that there are so many of them to keep up with, in addition to your daily "life" (away from the computer...that "real world" thing everyone's talking about).
I'm on Facebook for work reasons, and because someone invited me (my company's planning to build a Facebook app so I'm getting used to the "experience"). I'm also on LinkedIn and have gotten pretty comfortable with it. While you can't add widgets to Linked In, it's a little world you have to keep track of, just as much as (if not more than) Facebook. In any given network of friends & colleagues, you might have 2-5 different online systems to keep track of them. A bunch of my friends on LinkedIn recently started inviting me to Spock - I've never heard of it, but went ahead and accepted the invite. Now I have THREE places to watch. I'm notoriously bad at keeping in touch with people as it is, but now I have to monitor and update three new environments to make sure no one posts porn on my Superwall (thanks for the tip!), asks me a question on LinkedIn, or (I'm guessing) posts new parental advice on my Spock profile. Sheesh. So yes, I think all these environments need insanely easy ways of making sure people don't update your content with something offensive - the little "email notice" works well for Facebook, but it should be more of a gate than a notification: Don't let it on unless I say so. Bryan http://www.bryanminihan.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lucy Buykx Bringing it back to topic (a little), adding widgets or applications onto a personal owned page that other people can contribute content to has repercussions. You cannot control the content and cannot be there all the time to moderate it. ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
