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When it’s not time to share

… then it’s not time to get a new phone.

It dawned on me, with the unveiling of Microsoft’s Kin One and Two, that if I can’t be bothered with a stream of Facebook updates, I cannot justify buying a new phone.

This image from a review on Engadget tells it all:

I mean, if I don’t have these gals on my Facebook and Myspace and Twitter, I am not cool enough to get this phone, right? So I wonder:

  • What this phone would look like if I turned the social functionality OFF.
  • What it could do for me if my important friends were not on Facebook.
  • How I could connect to friends who aren’t on approved social networks

This is not a critique of the Microsoft phone. There’s nothing wrong with it per se.

My beef is: on the web, I can choose to ignore Facebook and still be social when I want to. The phones, connected as they have become, force me to go through channels.

I don’t have my friends on Facebook; I have my friends and some of them happen to be there. For those who aren’t and who are, for instance, “just” blogging, well tough: I probably won’t have them on my homescreen holding an ice-cream cone and smiling like they just won the lottery.

For phones to become 1st class citizens of the Web, they need to be aware of it. Facebook is not the whole internet.

April 12, 2010 | Filed Under Me & You, But Mostly Me 

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