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RIP Blippy? Yippy!
By Rosie Perera | May 19, 2011 at 7:27 pm
TechCrunch reports “The End Of Blippy As We Know It“. Good riddance, as far as I’m concerned. In spite of the fact that I love the word “Blip” (my cousin and siblings and I have had a running joke about it for decades) I’ve always thought Blippy was a weird concept. It was a social networking site where you would share your credit card transaction details with your friends. My privacy antennae went up big-time on that. Who would want to share that kind of information with friends on a social network? Maybe one or two personal friends, if you need someone to keep you accountable if you’ve been spending too much money. But is there really a huge market for that kind of thing? Social networking thrives on scalability. As the TechCrunch articles points out, “almost nobody wants people to check out their purchases.” The reason why? “Sharing purchases with friends doesn’t solve a problem.” Neil Postman was fond of saying “What is the problem for which [this new technology] is the solution?” and if there wasn’t a problem, he wouldn’t adopt the technology.
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