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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
As we chatted about on the second episode of Product Hunt Radio (plug!), I'm fascinated by this trend toward anonymity. Even Facebook is playing in this space with anonymous login, announced yesterday at F8. cc @liveink @popcorn_ryan @Nivo0o0
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A lot of people have this impression that anonymity is some new internet phenomenon, but pre-facebook, the whole damn web was anonymous, and after, 4chan and reddit are still anonymous.
I often say that facebook localized and commercialized the internet, and that's the phenomenon.
The trend today is probably more accurately expressed as the commercializa… See more
@guygal - completely agree. The social web with built on anonymity (forums, chatroom etc.) and we're all anonymous in real life - when we're walking down the street! Exception: celebrities.