Just to clarify, Corkpage does not have everyone's data. Facebook and Twitter do. They give out basic profile information to other apps via their APIs, which any developer can use within limits. Say, if someone downloads a third-party Twitter app, they can look you up from within that app. The app will request your info from Twitter via the API, and will get it, even if you have never installed the app yourself.
Please do not freak out. This was just an idea. We thought it would be cool to turn profile URLs into something like an email address. So you could write to anyone, from Facebook to Twitter, and back. We were building a back-end framework and a JS library at the time. It was more fun to work on a project that used both rather than do it in the abstract.
We were/are worried about abuse as well. There is a way to report abuse, and we are monitoring the reports. Except there aren't a whole lot of posts anyway. We don't have a good idea of what the best use for Corkpage would be either (if you figure it out, let us know), but we were never going to let it be anything negative.
As someone said, you post only on pages of others, but can reply, delete and premod on yours. It works like a guestbook, or Ask.fm.
Please do not freak out. This was just an idea. We thought it would be cool to turn profile URLs into something like an email address. So you could write to anyone, from Facebook to Twitter, and back. We were building a back-end framework and a JS library at the time. It was more fun to work on a project that used both rather than do it in the abstract.
We were/are worried about abuse as well. There is a way to report abuse, and we are monitoring the reports. Except there aren't a whole lot of posts anyway. We don't have a good idea of what the best use for Corkpage would be either (if you figure it out, let us know), but we were never going to let it be anything negative.
As someone said, you post only on pages of others, but can reply, delete and premod on yours. It works like a guestbook, or Ask.fm.
Thank you for the feedback. Peace.