"Good trolling" was dead before it was born. It was about as "good" as "good cracking." Your distinction is just about as valid as the one between "good harassment" and "bad harassment."
Something is either possible, or impossible; hence, it does not make sense for something to be "less impossible." That's like saying that something "exists less" than another thing; things either exist, or they don't.
For example, my barber exists, whereas barbers who shave all and only those barbers who don't shave themselves don't exist.
> They just starting switching users over to try it with the option of switching > back if you don't like it, that's why it's news now.
Not true. They started offering Yahoo! Mail Beta, IIRC, at least a year ago with the option of switching back.
The only difference is that recently, they also added an apparently random-appearing banner page upon login to the regular Yahoo! Mail asking users to try switching to the newer version. That's probably why it's news now.
The new features merely organize information that used to be public anyway into a convenient location.
Information is either public, or it isn't. If it's public, anybody can organize it; if not, then (presumably) nobody but those specifically allowed can. Facebook just organized it first, and in an especially convenient way. Heck, I could probably have organized the public information on Facebook myself and publicized it if I had wanted to, just to make a point.
If you don't want people knowing information about yourself, then just don't post it in a public place! It's that simple. Once it's posted, it's fair game for anybody to organize.
Kids, stop acting like Luddites. The real issue is about publicizing the information in the first place, not about organizing information that has already been publicized. Just don't publicize private information.
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"Good trolling" was dead before it was born. It was about as "good" as "good cracking." Your distinction is just about as valid as the one between "good harassment" and "bad harassment."
Something is either possible, or impossible; hence, it does not make sense for something to be "less impossible." That's like saying that something "exists less" than another thing; things either exist, or they don't. For example, my barber exists, whereas barbers who shave all and only those barbers who don't shave themselves don't exist.
> They just starting switching users over to try it with the option of switching
> back if you don't like it, that's why it's news now.
Not true. They started offering Yahoo! Mail Beta, IIRC, at least a year ago with the option of switching back.
The only difference is that recently, they also added an apparently random-appearing banner page upon login to the regular Yahoo! Mail asking users to try switching to the newer version. That's probably why it's news now.
-- DekuDekuplex
The new features merely organize information that used to be public anyway into a convenient location.
Information is either public, or it isn't. If it's public, anybody can organize it; if not, then (presumably) nobody but those specifically allowed can. Facebook just organized it first, and in an especially convenient way. Heck, I could probably have organized the public information on Facebook myself and publicized it if I had wanted to, just to make a point.
If you don't want people knowing information about yourself, then just don't post it in a public place! It's that simple. Once it's posted, it's fair game for anybody to organize.
Kids, stop acting like Luddites. The real issue is about publicizing the information in the first place, not about organizing information that has already been publicized. Just don't publicize private information.
-- DekuDekuplex