Why are 3rd party services 3rd party and not 2nd party?
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I always figured the Nintendo example helped a lot:
1st party = Nintendo made it
2nd party = a company Nintendo owns made it
3rd party = a company unrelated to Nintendo made it
Because you are the second party. This is a kind of business which serves a contract or provides a service other than the client. Here 1st party is the provider, 2nd party is you the client, 3rd party is anyone other than the provider or the client.
Imagine you’re playing a game with your friend. You and your friend make some rules for the game—you’re the main players. But then your mom says she will give you both a treat if you follow the rules. Your mom is like the “third party”—she’s not playing the game with you, but she’s still involved in what’s happening because she will give you the treat. So, the “third party” is someone who is not directly playing but is still connected to the game.
Think of the first and second parties like this: You and your friend are making a special club. You make a promise to share your toys, and you write it down as club rules.
– **First party:** That’s you, because you wrote your name first in the club rules.
– **Second party:** That’s your friend, because their name is written second.
So, in your club, you are the first party, and your friend is the second party. You’re both the main people involved in making the rules.
First party and second party are the consumer/purchaser and the provider/seller, third party is anything after.
* Your business = 1st party.
* Your customer = 2nd party.
* Your vendor (non-employee / non-organization in your company) = 3rd party.
Imagine you’re playing an MMO. Inside a market area. Someone sets up shop and starts selling gems for 50k each.
You shout “Buying Gems” and someone else see’s that
They proceed to buy all the gems from the shop you didn’t know about quickly, and then message you “100k each.”
You need gems, don’t see any in any shops at the front of the market, so you say okay. Then the guy comes to you and trades you.
That guy is a third party. A marketeer, if you had been slightly less lazy, you’d have paid half the price. However because you don’t want to try to make things better for yourself, you get taken advantage of and end up having to work way harder in the long run.
Sometimes the third party can be of value, if they provide a service that enhances stuff. This is usually delivery stuff, you have no problem with door dash because you don’t want to have to go get the food yourself. However most of the time, third party = legal scammer. You humans are too lazy and evil to do anything about it, so you get fucked and so do the few good people who would fight against it all.
In short, it works the same as point of view.
First person(party): me.
Second person(party): you.
Third person(party): *they* (someone else who is involved)
The first party is the entity you’re trying to make an arrangement with, they’re the first party (person or group of people) to your arrangement.
When you step back and look at the arrangement, the second party to the arrangement is obviously you.
Now anyone who is not directly involved in the arrangement (isn’t a party to it) comes third, and are therefore considered third party.
Why are people making it so difficult?
1 You are looking for an app for your phone.
2 Some developer has made the app you want.
3 Google or Apple or F-Droid have set up a service that makes it possible for party 2 to get the app to party 1 and processes payment. They are the third party.
1 You want to stay in Paris for a week.
2 A hotel there offers rooms you can use.
3 A travel agency lets you find that hotel and books the room for you. They are the third party.
2a If you also want to travel there by train or plane or bus the travel agency can book these other second parties who ONLY deal with you too as the third party. The train, plane or bus company have no business with the hotel. They are separate second parties dealing with you as the first party.
1 You want to buy a product.
2 A store 150 km away has something you want and you buy it from them.
3 A courier service brings the product from the store to you. They are the third party.
The third party in some way aids in two other parties reaching whatever goal it is these two parties want to accomplish.
Clear?
First party is you, second party is the person providing the service, third-party is the person selling the service of the second party to the first party. The second party can also sellservice but marketing costs money, sometimes it’s easier to have a third-party do it.
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