From an individual perspective, what does this mean about how we interact with the internet? I mean I'm relatively inhibited about giving my details on the internet, but also don't love the idea of only engaging with big shiny websites that have a big already-known brand behind them. As you say, some of the utility of these tools is that people can do things, we can take actions that we want to take as individuals, rather than everything real having to be done through and organisational behemoth. But I'm also (probably rightly?) quite suspicious of anything that looks like it's been slapped together by one person.
That's very fair. I think to a degree it was always thus - it's good to think about whether things seem trustworthy before using them no matter what. And it's always been hard to tell. I think there's probably going to be a patch where that's made harder again by these tools, but hopefully in the long term, their improvement will raise the bar for everyone. Fingers crossed
Great points made here. It may be the collapse of the internet that finally makes us all log off lol
From an individual perspective, what does this mean about how we interact with the internet? I mean I'm relatively inhibited about giving my details on the internet, but also don't love the idea of only engaging with big shiny websites that have a big already-known brand behind them. As you say, some of the utility of these tools is that people can do things, we can take actions that we want to take as individuals, rather than everything real having to be done through and organisational behemoth. But I'm also (probably rightly?) quite suspicious of anything that looks like it's been slapped together by one person.
That's very fair. I think to a degree it was always thus - it's good to think about whether things seem trustworthy before using them no matter what. And it's always been hard to tell. I think there's probably going to be a patch where that's made harder again by these tools, but hopefully in the long term, their improvement will raise the bar for everyone. Fingers crossed
The tweet embed on that article about how everything is broken is … broken
Oh thanks! I don't quite follow though, do you mean it's embedding in twitter badly, or something from twitter is showing up as badly embedded in it?
(Was meant in the spirit of ”look how apt!" rather than a complaint)
After Norton writes "Eight months before Snowden’s first revelation I tweeted this" I get an error message
Ah yes I see 😂