that makes me say “Seriously?” Today’s offering: kittywigs.com. Enjoy.

In the past couple weeks facebook has disabled the accounts of celebrity blogger Robert Scoble and Raj Anand, technical director of kwiqq.

I don’t have much to say about whether facebook did the “right” thing… FWIW, Scoble broke his terms of service, and he knew it too, whereas Anand’s use of the site seems more innocuous. What these incidents highlight are larger questions of data ownership with respect to the purpose of facebook. Isn’t spamming your connections part of facebook’s charter? As a [former] facebook user I was always under the impression friending someone implicitly opened myself up to messages from them *even outside of facebook* because my contact information would get shared. For example, facebook’s Friend Finder can even spam non-facebook users via IM and email.

If facebook is allowed to use the contact information I put in there to spam my friends, and I’m allowed to use facebook as a means for mass communication, why am I not allowed to take that contact information and contact my friends via a non-facebook channel? It’s disingenuous to ask users to import data without having a way to export it in a meaningful way.

Reasons I started this blog:

1. I just found out that OpenID was supported by wordpress
2. I could not believe stacywong.wordpress.com was available
3. It’s a new year. Anything is possible.