Assorted Udderances » facebook http://blog.myselfmusic.com take a pull offa Ben's pipe Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:25:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Embracing a single point of failure http://blog.myselfmusic.com/2011/05/embracing-a-single-point-of-failure/ http://blog.myselfmusic.com/2011/05/embracing-a-single-point-of-failure/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 20:21:31 +0000 Ben Kennedy http://blog.myselfmusic.com/?p=191 As Marco Arment says in this piece about Twitter (specifically, the impact of its recent whimsical change to authentication requirements, though the observation applies generally):

These are the risks that you take when you base your personal happiness or your business on a single, irreplaceable, young, evolving third-party service.

The same can be said for Facebook, or those silly "URL shorteners", or Gmail, or any number of other no-cost fad services that seem to become so popular.

Commonfolk can always be counted upon for short-sighted feelings of entitlement.

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The article is an insightful essay on the cyclical and insipid phenomenon of today's "social gaming".

I post this as a follow-up to earlier linkage of a couple weeks ago, an essay exploring why people play FarmVille. (via Marco)

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