Facebook wants your friends to know where you are at all times
Facebook is getting its Fourquare on, reports Nick Bilton at the New York Times.
Starting next month, the more than 400 million Facebook users could begin seeing a new kind of status update flow through their news feed: the current locations of their friends.
Facebook plans to take the wraps off a new location-based feature in late April at f8, the company’s yearly developer conference, according to several people briefed on the project, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss unannounced services.
via Facebook Will Allow Users to Share Location – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.
Apparently the Please Rob Me folks did not make an impression on Facebook. But, supposedly, this will be an opt-in feature.
Snap decision: Too much, Facebook. Too much.
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Hi Kashmire.
Thank you for this post.
Managing your online identity is becoming more and more complex.
The average user (read anybody who’s not a geek)has become inured to the problem by years of clinking “I agree” to the TOS (Terms of Service) and privacy settings of the countless websites we join.
Rapleaf http://www.rapleaf.com/ offers a free service that lets you see what’s visible on dozens of SN (social networking) sites.
Another good source to monitor your online footprint is People123 http://www.123people.com
As I’m sure you’re aware, there’s an iPhone app called Loopt that does the same thing. About a year ago I was meeting up with a friend who generally runs late in a place that was pretty crowded and thought about how valuable such a feature would be and considered, while I waited and waited and watched turning it on. Then I thought about it one more minute and decided that was way too much information to give out generally. I don’t even cheat on my girlfriend or drink in bars or shoot craps on Dizzy’s front stoop, and it still felt like ratting myself out.
You know what feature would make me reconsider? If the application would also generate excuses to match the location like “Look, I just really wanted a Quarter Pounder, is that ok?” or “It was the only place open,” or “I had a hard day,” or “for crying out loud, if you don’t like the way I live my life quit gathering data on where I live it!”
Who is Kasmire? anyways, this makes me really think about deleting my fb account.
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