Posts tagged with ‘facebook’

Facebook Places. Big Brother has just arrived and s/he looks like your best friend. I can already see the epic fights over checking friends in who want to keep their lives private. That one feature - that loss of control - makes all the difference. It’s like the ultimate tattle-tale. Eesh. I hope the opt out is easy to find.

soupsoup:

Facebook Places is basically a Foursquare clone, as expected.

One really nice feature is your friends have to opt-out of you checking them in, awesome, and so Facebook. That’s right, your friends can check you in, even if you didn’t check in yourself. It’s almost as if Facebook wants you to hate them.

People can create a “Place” for your house. At first it’s private, but if enough people check in, it becomes public. 

Because of Facebook’s size, it takes all privacy issues location apps have wrestled with for over 10 years (Dodgeball) and cranks them up to 11.

Think you hated seeing all those Foursquare check-ins in your stream, well get ready to see 500 million users checking into your stream on Twitter and Facebook.

Location based apps are great, if they stay in their silos. Facebook and Twitter streams shouldn’t have check in’s polluting the stream. Currently the only twitter app I know that lets you filter out location check ins is Tweet Deck.

bradybd:

First official poster for The Social Network (via nevver)