Decius wrote:

Facebook has not just killed off MySpace - it has killed off personal email, too.

And that really sucks. I lost touch with a lot of people when I dropped off the social network grid. No one uses email anymore. I got people's email addresses before I left, but my experience has been no one checks email anymore.

I'm still not doing the smartphone thing. The future of that is full of suck too. See http://www.mobiledia.com/news/112155.html for the story on Verizon pledging to sell customer data to advertisers. Now your ISP is monetizing you, there's no way of this trap unless you want to colo somewhere and run your own POP for your VPN endpoint at all times.

The future of the internet, quoting from 1984:

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever."

Stephen Baker's book "The Numerati" paints a similarly bleak picture about how we'll be sliced and diced and monetized: http://thenumerati.net/

Information doesn't want to be free. We lost.

RE: MemeStreams now has a NUP