{"id":573,"date":"2009-01-08T14:53:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T12:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2009-01-08T14:53:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T12:53:14","slug":"and-so-now-im-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"And so now I&#8217;m on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-574\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;\" title=\"Facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/facebook.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook\" width=\"236\" height=\"78\" \/>Having staved it off for years I&#8217;ve finally joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a>.\u00a0 Here are a few initial thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>I was disappointed that the only authentication method offered was old fashioned passwords.\u00a0 We are still as an industry struggling with making the leap to a better means.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s not like there are none out there.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/openid.net\">OpenID<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Information_Card\">Infocards<\/a> can no longer be considered new.\u00a0 A question for a future blog entry might be why these technologies are not succeeding.\u00a0 Indeed just this week SlashDot.Org ran a <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=09\/01\/07\/1958202\">story<\/a> about how OpenID is losing ground.<\/p>\n<p>There is a whole different set of social rules on Facebook, and I don&#8217;t know what they are.\u00a0 For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of my friends wanted to add detail about my previous employment experience, which is something I wasn&#8217;t prepared to do myself.\u00a0 And so I refused.\u00a0 Have I offended him?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know.<\/li>\n<li>My initial \u201cnote\u201d indicated that I don&#8217;t do much with FaceBook, and that people should see my blog.\u00a0 This elicited a long discussion, not involving me.\u00a0 If I don&#8217;t reply, have I offended?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why is Facebook even necessary?\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t this what we want the Internet to be in general?\u00a0 Why should this form of communication be limited to one site?\u00a0 For one, people are tired of spam on the Internet and so they are looking for an email replacement.\u00a0 Beyond that, having one&#8217;s own web server is a royal pain in the ass.\u00a0 But moreover, the comment I got more than once was that a blog is isolating.\u00a0 Why is that?\u00a0 What makes this blog isolating as compared to Facebook?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having staved it off for years I&#8217;ve finally joined Facebook.\u00a0 Here are a few initial thoughts: I was disappointed that the only authentication method offered was old fashioned passwords.\u00a0 We are still as an industry struggling with making the leap to a better means.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s not like there are none out there.\u00a0 OpenID and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=573\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And so now I&#8217;m on Facebook&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,87,9],"tags":[222,223,170],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-internet","category-security","tag-facebook","tag-info-cards","tag-openid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}