Tag: timeline

The ‘lost’ right to delete your content

Of course, the forced replacement of “delete” with “archiving” is presented as benevolent. Yet, if it were truly benevolent, we’d not have the right to lose forever taken from us. It would be offered as a choice. Of course, given that choice, we might well just do that and delete and that would spoil the wishes of the Timeline paranoids – their paranoia based on a fear of gaps, of holes and of empty spaces they do not own and control. Paul Levy, on an issue he marks as “an over-dramatic sounding article about what, at first glance, might look

The problem with Android’s timeline argument

I’m sure that private and public timeline are different, and arguing that the Android timeline is “older” because it was more in the public eye than Apple will cause no end of fanboy wars. But if you want to look at timelines, how about Android before iPhone and Android after iPhone? So pardon me if I raise an eyebrow to Eric Schmidt today: …I think most people would agree that Google is a great innovator and I would also point out that the Android effort started before the iPhone effort.

Facebook’s 16 year old mistake?

Arthur Le Meur, via his Dad, Loic: My 16 years old son Arthur first told me “I will delete my entire Facebook profile and create a new empty one when they launch Timeline.” He got so scared that his current friends would see all his posts and pics since 2009 that he somehow managed to activate his account as developer (by creating a fake app I think, I guess it’s a start), activate timeline and then he found he could hide it all. Here is Facebook’s mistake: considering that everybody will want to expose all his past by default. Isn’t it…