Decide if you are the wild west internet or the authenticated internet then do what you do.

Stop trying to be all things under all conditions.

ID authentication starts with ID ownership at the citizen level… until then there is no need for any of this stuff.

I will not give up my anonymity to find people that I can just talk to in real life. In general if I don’t have there real life information I probably don’t want to talk to them online. Second , I don’t want people to associate that swedish p*enis pump i have promote on my profile with my real life identity. thank you.

as for ID portability, in my opinion it’s all about FBConnect vs. OpenID

on the streets you can generally talk to strangers without first having to give details of your identity. the online world should be similar.

It’s time to leave the social networks, and build your own websites.

Like who? I don’t mean “that one guy,” I mean “who are the ‘many’?”

On top of that, I think the social networks will want to be able to bring comments made on external sites back into their services and into the information streams they have. But what if you don’t want all your friends to know (or know they won’t care) about the comment you just posted? It’s just more noise.

Maybe. Personally I don’t mind missing out on another “X sent you a piece of dust!” message, though.

With ever growing profiling online (mainly from companies), and more people needing work, it’s probably better to just leave your id unknown unless it’s a part of a business where you want people to know what it really is.

I know there are ways for them to find out, but why make it easy. Why take away your freedom of individuality, just because you have an opinion or idea you want to share without being sacked or scolded or worse.

2009 is going to be all about surviving the downturn. And convincing your employees to stay when they’re paid in stock options that they thought would be cashed by now, but won’t be worth anything for the forseeable future. I’m talking about Facebook, obviously, MySpace had a lucky escape from economic reality when News Corp acquired it. “Social network identity” is the least of their worries.

We still need to get to the model where users are structured as property owners managed at the ID level… in a secure and authenticated environment… and allow business models to start forming off of that foundation.

In fact… lets elevate the game and get the US government to hand over ownership of citizen ID’s to the citizens while we are at it… so that we can all participate in this little thing called “socio-economic life” as owners. The model is inherent to our freedom and empowerment, as well as our security.

A free man and an owner walk into a room… are they equal? There’s the need. Own your ID, own your socio-economic and digital life.

Myspace will just get a bunch of John Smith’s and Jane Smith’s when users figure it out and they will get sick of it.

Either way, MySpace will have a tough time with getting people to use their real names, especially w/ facebook out there. ie. MySpace is that site that has all those ‘creepy’ people you don’t want to know. But FaceBook seems so much more legit, just because you generally know who you are talking to.