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DavidKorvinSecondPaper 8 - 19 Jan 2013 - Main.DavidKorvin
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| | | Potential Changes to Limit Gchat’s Dominance for Users in My Age Range | |
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< | I think that for people to stop being as socially dependent on Gchat a two-step process needs to unfold: (1) people need to stop using Gmail [because almost everyone that uses Gchat accesses it through Gmail]; and (2) open source programmers need to create an online chatting platform that is appealing to a wide array of users. | >
> | I think that for people in my age range to stop being as socially dependent on Gchat a two-step process needs to unfold: (1) people need to stop using Gmail [because almost everyone that uses Gchat accesses it through Gmail]; and (2) open source programmers need to create an online chatting platform that is appealing to a wide array of users. | | | | |
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< | I feel that many people, including many of my peers, feel compelled to use Gmail because it allows for a lot of free memory and everyone else uses it. However, Gmail has disastrous privacy concerns for its users, and I think that many of my friends would not use it if Gchat did not exist as a supplement to Gmail. Thus, I think that any open source alternative to Gmail will need to incorporate a platform that is equivalent to that of Google’s Gchat function. | >
> | I feel that many people, including many of my peers, feel compelled to use Gmail for the reasons that it allows for a lot of free memory and everyone else uses it. However, Gmail has disastrous privacy concerns for its users, and I think that many of my friends would not use it if Gchat did not exist as a supplement to Gmail. Thus, I think that any open source alternative to Gmail will need to incorporate a platform that is equivalent to that of Google’s Gchat function. | | | | |
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< | Thus, open source programmers need to focus on an online chat platform that allows you to immediately see who is available to chat once the user has logged on. I, like many of my peers, prefer to Gchat over texting or e-mailing because of the immediacy that the platform provides. Additionally, another advantage of Gchat is that it is incredibly easy to use; all you need to do is click on your contact’s name to start a conversation with him or her. | >
> | As a result, open source programmers need to focus on an online chat platform that allows users to immediately see who is available to chat once the user has logged on. I, like many of my peers, prefer to Gchat over texting or e-mailing because of the immediacy that the platform provides. Additionally, another advantage of gChat is that it is incredibly easy to use; all you need to do is click on your contact’s name to start a conversation with him or her. | | | Though I do not know much about computer programming, I have no reason to believe that building an open source equivalent of Gchat is difficult to do; however, I do think that it will be hard to convince people to switch from Gchat to the open source alternative because it is easy to use. Therefore, to be truly competitive, this open source chatting platform will need to offer a feature that Gchat cannot offer: PRIVACY. Though technologically-informed people know the privacy perils of Google and its products, I believe that the overwhelming percentage of Google users do not think Google’s privacy problems impacts them on an individual basis. As a result, any open source chat platform faces an uphill battle in convincing many Google users to stop using Google products, even when the open source platform is superior. |
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