My colleague at work sent this around:
I hereby do notify the world that I shall not join any form of online service that has any of the following features:
• Requires me to work out who my friends are.
• Asks me to approve you as a friend before we can communicate.
• Sends me an email to tell me someone didn’t send me an email.
• Wants me to register before I can contribute.
• Wants me to write a constant narrative of my life just in case someone unspecified wants to read it.
• Expects me to manually give my availability or location for any reason.
• Endorses products to others based using my name.
It is interesting how quickly such things become annoying. Receiving an email to tell you someone sent you a message? The logic in doing this serves only the application. It causes the user pain. Personally, i'm glad people are beginning to realise that their data should indeed be theirs. Applications you use are only custodians; convenient stores if you will. I own my data, not my apps.
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