I think a lot - i really do - about how facebook, google et al base their business models on snowing the public into believing these things:
- There is only one level of acquaintance, "Friend"
- Normal people have no secrets
- Normal people don't take pictures of their sex parts
- There is only one level of acquaintance, "Friend"
- Normal people have no secrets
- Normal people don't take pictures of their sex parts
Photo management apps, by and large, have no concept of share levels or permissions. I can't tell my phone "look, you fuck, yes, I photographed my Dick last night because I have friends who want to see that. Stop showing it in my thumbnails."
Even if I was willing to use the google/apple cloud services, they have no mechanism for not uploading my sex pictures or porn I save to my phone. They absolutely know this is a thing, but acknowledging it would be *fucking apocalyptic*
There's no way for these companies to acknowledge that Naked Pictures Exist except by just doing that and they aren't willing to tarnish their reputation by attacking the widely held notion that if you take a naked picture you're a degenerate.
Chrome has Incognito of course but web browsers are for nerds. Nobody looks in the menu. The web browser is the address bar (barely) and the webview and nothing else, users don't even know any of that shit exists.
And of course nobody takes pictures of work secrets, nobody has a phone they share with their partner who they might not want to alert about every single purchase they make, nobody has secret thoughts they don't want everyone to know.
Your coworkers and boss and mother and a person you met at the gym once, they should ALL get the same version of every single event that happens in your life and you should have no way to address these sets differently because Normal People can do that, that's how Normal is
All large businesses have to play into the societal fantasy that we do not lie constantly to each other, that lying is not a critical component of basic social function, that the only reason we can live together is because we get to withold information as needed.
We have to lie to acquaintances because of the flaws of the human emotional complex. You cannot tell a coworker "I don't want to tell you about the sunrise I saw yesterday with my girlfriend because it makes me feel weird. We aren't close friends. I don't want to be intimate."
This is not something that will change. You will not be able to do that when we have transcended matter and become creatures of light and spirit in the year 31900. Humans cannot stand being explicitly excluded or told we are not important to our acquaintances.
This is why "coworker asks if i have a twitter" is so fucking terrifying. In 1996 a coworker would not have asked "hey can you 3-way call me when you talk to your old friends", but everything is fucking blurred now.
Mostly I'm just pissed about the photo apps. I don't want to ever give my photos to any kind of heuristic image analysis search engine, regardless of how helpful that would be at times, because it's going to mean porn showing up in public unexpectedly.
