Lazy Search

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/28/redux-discovers-friends-so-you-dont-have-to/

So, this website (which isn’t running yet, I would love to check it out) is something like a Facebook/Match.com hybrid, used to find friends online based on surveys, tests, etc. Even someone shy/detached like me can see how much a person has to give up on themselves to actually stoop to the level of having an internet database match you up with people to be friends with you. It would be so much easier just to go sit in a library and start talking to someone. I mean, even if this is over the internet, you’re going to eventually have to talk to the person. Unless it will turn out like Facebook, where you can pretty much friend everyone and have 500 Miami “friends” in your network.

Tag Mentality

While social bookmarking, tagging, and cloud cluster clingy code names are interesting and add another level of interaction to my web experience, there are some things that I feel don’t really need to be viewed and reviewed and interviewed by the masses. Constant updates to your away messages, for instance, with an up-to-the-minute itinerary of your January 22nd are one of the things that I don’t need to see updated, linked, sourced, and tagged every three and a half minutes. Some things are just inappropriate and obnoxious to attempt. Tagging can be extremely useful when I want to find brand new subjects or material that are similar to my interests. Its like gaining a new perspective on an old opinion.

With that said, the so called “Smart” Fitting Room is just one of those abominations that attempts to involve the masses and make everyone more social and connected. The smart fitting room is a completely absurd idea; it is Web 2.0 goodness taken out of context.