[OpenID] OpenID Uri versus Email addresses

[Johannes Ernst]

On your blog you write:

> I've never been presented to a person who forgot their email  
> address. Quite a claim you may say, but when one presents themselves  
> in business one tends to shake hands and hand over a business card  
> with the email written on it.

I assume you usually present to middle-aged business people, like most  
of us do. Do you think this would also be true for teenagers whose on- 
line life is MySpace?

I postulate -- although I have no data to back it up -- that in that  
demographic, everybody knows what their MySpace page is (i.e. a URL)  
and they consider e-mail to be something for quaint old farts only  
(like middle-aged business people) and irrelevant to them.

This is an important discussion, but let's make sure that we don't  
make generalizations that might not be true.

If anybody actually had some hard data, that'd be great, otherwise we  
are arguing everybody's guesses and are none the wiser.





Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.


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