Comments on: ephemeral profiles (cuz losing passwords is common amongst teens)

By: tatianahunt

tatianahunt — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:24:08 +0000

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By: Tina (A)

Tina (A) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:13:18 +0000

This reminds me of what a relief it was to move from country to country as a kid–in each place you can start over, be a new person to the people you meet, all your mistakes forgotten. Maybe adults feel more certain that their past has social value, and retyping the info about their college degrees is a necessity and a bother. Teens don’t have a resume yet, they’re always only just on the verge of doing something more awesome than they did before. And they’re far more eager to bury everything with the things they’ve done wrong, since they don’t have as much they’re proud of to protect.

By: David

David — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:02:21 +0000

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By: Srini

Srini — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:40:25 +0000

Waghdude says why not allow id’s to be linked, and pick which one you want to be.

In most IM/Email systems today, you can pick the sender ID. Yahoo, for example, allows one of multiple profiles to be used in various parts of the system.

Anyone given any thought as to what extensions to this basic concept would be useful?

By: Catan

Catan — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:11:21 +0000

Like waghdude, I wonder how this plays out across different demographic boundaries and identifiers. More specifically, I wonder how this plays out across different time scale? If we can answer that question it motivated more by availability of their usernames and Internet access (i.e. those with less access (i.e. those Home

By: Seamus McCauley

Seamus McCauley — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:16:13 +0000

Freddy Mercury already said it best in Killer Queen:

“To avoid complications
She never kept the same address”…

By: heather

heather — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:50:18 +0000

I lost my myspace password….PLEASE help….

By: anon_teen

anon_teen — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:55:06 +0000

Personally, I’m all for portability. And I’m all for personality. But I want the freedom of anonymity and change. If I want to start over, being a different person to everybody, then I’ll do that.

I only lose nicks/handles of stuff I’m not too interested in anyways (like my 2nd and 3rd ICQ accounts), but keep everything I value (my first ICQ account, the accounts to various favorite sites). I often forget accounts on friends’ sites, but that’s only because I can send them an email or give them a call and everything’s back to status quo.
Also, with 12-16 char passwords, it’s not always easy to remember them

And I am a teen. No normal teen, admittedly, but I still favor the value of anonymity. I usually only publish any things I’m not too sure about I want to keep it if it can get rid of it later on (like putting a robots.txt in place to prevent indexing for certain material).

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:47:05 +0000

Really interesting post and great comments from everyone. I’m not sure about everyone else, but I’ve changed my account habits on the net quite dramatically since the snowball-down-the-mountain of Web 2.0. A few years ago I also had a couple of identities which I built extensively around and used net-wide. These represented different areas of my “self” (work, hobbies, sexlife etc).
Since Web 2.0 I notice that I’ve become a lot more ephemeral too. I think the main changes for me have been:
1. My “brand loyalty” had diminished dramatically. Flikr might be my preferred host for photos at the moment, but lately Twango is looking better to me and I’ve got one eye on what Zooomr, Webshots, ImageShack, Tabblo, Pickle and BubbleShare are doing too. Things are changing fast. I think this is particularly an issue with Social Networking sites. Vox might look great and you might sign up, but what if all your friends join Bebo or you end up being one of only 10 members or it’s just basically not a network you enjoy being in? By being flexible with identity, the discarded or half-built can be left with less baggage.
2. Who knows what happens to your details when these sites get sold? We know the big money is being paid for Web 2.0 for membership size which means your identity is part of their assets. And who knows how ethical they are in the first place? I was reading today about Spoke.com and how its free toolbar does some very nasty things (http://phil.yanov.com/2007/01/spokecom-is-evil.htm). So again the disposable identity has some distinct advantages.