Scoble was erased? Ha!

January 4, 2008 by mireya
Filed under: Notes 

Here’s my reply to Scobles, “Erased” post in the aftermath of his “debacle”. Geesh!

First off, I seriously doubt you went into all this not thinking about all the mileage you were going to be able to get out of it, regardless of getting nabbed. But that’s okay. I don’t have any negative feelings if you knew you’d be able to have $h1tloads of press/links written about the “experiment”. In fact, I applaud you for doing it, knowing that you are smart enough to have figured out the various potential results.

Plus, you’re getting ready to announce “your next move” in terms of moving your career from podtech to Scoble 2.0 (2.5?, 3.0?). Does anyone truly imagine this is “hurting” you? Come on people.

But to the bigger point: FB is what it is. If you want to be more in control of your social network, you need to be following DiSo or APML or the likes. You need to have an OpenID.

What we are experiencing right now is nothing like what we’ll experience online in 5 or 10 years. NOTHING.

And if you were able to get yourself all riled up over the “shenanigans” that RS just perpetrated, I ask you this: do you have a safeway, ralphs, frys, or any other grocery store “member” card? If you do, and you use it regularly, your the fool! Why, because they know more about you than you know about you. They know more about what you do than you probably realize. And you can’t get at that information. You can’t pull it out of their systems.

But you all keep harping on the tragedy that has occurred here. Amazing!

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  • Well I guess my distrust pays off in this case. I don't trust others to own my significant data. Fine you can do what you want with this comment. But I can live with this comment being deleted. I would be very reluctant to trust significant content to another site. That doesn't mean I don't participate at all but that I keep the majority of my content under my control.
  • Hey John Hunter. Not sure where you're coming up with your comment being deleted from this site, unless you are making a reference to Scoble himself being erased. I only delete obvious spam comments. I think I might have deleted one other legitimate one but it was so "spammy" and didn't ad to the conversation that I didn't feel too bad about it!

    I thought you might be a John Hunter that I knew from back in my days pursuing the Hollywood thing. He was a writer that I've lost track of since the early 90's. Anyways, I agree with you about "trusting significant content to another site". That's one reason I always create a post for any "significant" comments that I might have for a site under someone else's control. The larger concepts here, however, are not so much content (like this post and our comments) but the information you entered into the comment form. I now have your email address, IP number web site, etc. Nothing terribly personal and private. And I think that's one of the mis-directions that all of this brouhaha is about.

    If I somehow had access to your Social Security or drivers license number then that could be serious. Thanks for stopping by JH; grateful for your comments.
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