Thursday, August 19, 2010

Facebook (and places)

How Facebook Places works.

On privacy:

• The default setting for Facebook Places only sends location alerts to your Facebook friends. There are ways to change that (we'll talk about changing your settings later) to tell more, or fewer, people. But as is, no one you haven't approved as a friend can see what you post.

Ugh. Can you think of anything more annoying - trying to figure out the settings of who to let know where you are and when? Just another ridiculous waste of time. It's not enough just to live your life anymore, we need to publicize our lives as well? Soon, we'll just get rid of the "running into so-and-so" phenomenon and everyone will be stalking one another on Facebook. This is a future I want no part of. A future designed by nerds to stalk cooler people. Lame.

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