Plaxo Pulse adds to our social anxiety - Valleywag Comments

Plaxo Pulse adds to our social anxiety

SilentChris — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:00:12 PST

Strangely enough, this privacy problem is exactly what Pulse was designed to solve. You can opt to share your photos with any combination of your family, friends, and business network (or nobody if you prefer). I would definitely suggest giving it another try to check out that feature, because I think that's one of the things that really makes the service work at a level above Facebook.

SilentChris

Plaxo Pulse adds to our social anxiety

formerplaxouser — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:49:40 PDT

it's too bad that Plaxo didn't learn the lesson from Facebook and give users the ability to turn this feature off if you want privacy. The way Pulse is configured, every one of your Plaxo contacts sees all your other activity. Nice! The party photos I uploaded for my friends also get sent to my co-workers and there is no way to prevent it. Great idea Plaxo!

formerplaxouser

Plaxo Pulse adds to our social anxiety

skooch — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:31:52 PDT

I think that "Facebook fatigue" is going to be a very real thing. I declared that after Friendster disappeared. I have accounts on all of the social networks but setting them up, finding all your friends, etc. is just too time consuming, especially when the site will be out of style within a year and you'll have to do it all again.

I think the future of social networking is in making the data portable.

skooch

Plaxo Pulse adds to our social anxiety

TheTypeset — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:20:45 PDT

You can selectively change privacy settings for individuals. And only on certain features. On Facebook.

TheTypeset

Plaxo Pulse adds to our social anxiety

tolles — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:45:02 PDT

Hmmm. I wonder what Sean Parker has to say about this given his role as founder of Plaxo and former President of Facebook?

tolles

Plaxo Pulse adds to our social anxiety

eze — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:27:36 PDT

The Wag is back, eh?

eze