From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-04-30T11:46:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Hey, try out Flock

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Luis Lavena wrote:

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| These services should at least add a legend of what they do with your
| contact information, or users should be more clever do not enter
| account and passwords for these when subscribing.

All services like that (Though I haven't used Flock, which is a browser,
IIRC), clearly state what they do with the address book you hand over to
them.

And it is, usually, an extra step to acknowledge that you want to do
that, *and* you need to add your credentials.

They also offer you to change the email addresses an invitation is send
to, before they are actually sent.

If anything, it isn't Flock's (or LinkedIn's, or Facebook's) fault that
the sender didn't exhibit due diligence.

Usability can only get one so far. It doesn't absolve the user from
thinking (it can make it easier, though, and most social-web-2.5 Alpha
services are rather easy to understand and non-technical).


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