Reacties op: What Facebook’s Stumble Can Teach Your Company http://www.asecondopinion.nl/archives/269 a spectator sees more than a player Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:27:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Door: Thees Peereboom http://www.asecondopinion.nl/archives/269/comment-page-1#comment-6 Thees Peereboom Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:27:00 +0000 http://www.asecondopinion.nl/?p=269#comment-6 Who owns what on social networks? And why is it important? In the early days it was very much 'because we can' - the main reason why Plaxo made every move you made public, because they could. When importing your adressbook into Plaxo, it immediately sent out a message to everyone in it, without asking or even telling it did. Somehow many of these social networks are of the opinion that data once entered belong to them. As far as I'm concerned there can be no doubt about it, very much in line with the author of this piece - I own the data and I should be able, at any time, to change, update or delete it. If the application would like to announce my update, it should not be able to do so without my consent. The lesson here, once again, is 'trust your users', put them in charge where it concerns their data and help them to make the best of it. No more, no less. Who owns what on social networks? And why is it important? In the early days it was very much ‘because we can’ – the main reason why Plaxo made every move you made public, because they could. When importing your adressbook into Plaxo, it immediately sent out a message to everyone in it, without asking or even telling it did. Somehow many of these social networks are of the opinion that data once entered belong to them. As far as I’m concerned there can be no doubt about it, very much in line with the author of this piece – I own the data and I should be able, at any time, to change, update or delete it. If the application would like to announce my update, it should not be able to do so without my consent.

The lesson here, once again, is ‘trust your users’, put them in charge where it concerns their data and help them to make the best of it. No more, no less.

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