A single social integrated Inbox for all social communication is truly a wonderful offer. It is a streamlined social communications with your chosen circle of friends; simple, intuitive, fluid.
You can easily spam and noise out and can have a white list of selected friends’ circle in.
This all is provide to you by Facebook.
No doubt a unified messaging system with all your friends is the future.
User side harmonization is good and it is efficient, inclusive, friendly, streaming. Takes a holistic view of users and attempts to fully and intuitively accommodate you, simplify my interactions and allows you to see a comprehensive picture of your communications with a specific friend via all instant means.
What does it require of you to get the benefits of these services?
Once you register to this new system, you have to provide Facebook your cellular number, and access to your IM and external e-mail systems. Facebook already has a list of all your friends and can rate their value to you based on your interactions.
You can easily afford it as these services are completely free of cost.
There’s only one question – is it really an honest to God user side service?
In a corporate driven hegemony race, can what to us users is blessed harmonization be reconciled with giants’ interests for increasing customer share and captivity through consolidation? Are we being played into the giant war between Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft.
You can find contextual text ads on the sides of your IM and chats based on what and with whom you communicated?
Can we innocently trust Facebook’s privacy keeping? And the biggest question of all what about our privacy, ownership of our data, visibility to what we talk about and with whom?
If we feared Google’s search monitoring that is nothing compared to the exposure level of Facebook’s aggregated messaging platform.Will advertisers lurk around our walls on Facebook, hunting for indicative communications from this single inbox?
Facebook is the natural communication platform of youngsters who intuitively share all with Facebook friends. Many of them are unaware of the distinctions, privacy implications and the data preying industry that just looks for easier ways to get it all.
Do we really want all our interactions harmonized under the auspices of a commercial entity whose business model depends on 3rd party interests and is not directly tied to us? In order to gain our trust
Facebook will have to give us full control over our privacy settings and full visibility of their data collection, storage and usability.
A true user centered web is where services are built around user, the individual, and for you and me, opening up the soiled gardens of providers that aim to keep you captive in a comforting bear hug. The future lies in real user side services. A user centered approach that treats my data as my asset to keep.
Our personal data is a valuable currency and should be managed by user side data base banks that are directly just as committed to us and regulated in the same manner.
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