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. That is… extremely disturbing. I hope my friends don’t start using this feature, because I might have to de-friend their asses. Perhaps the time has come to delete my Facebook account?

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.

That is… extremely disturbing. I hope my friends don’t start using this feature, because I might have to de-friend their asses.

Perhaps the time has come to delete my Facebook account?

18 August, 2010
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  1. xx2 reblogged this from nickmcglynn
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  4. davron reblogged this from zadi and added:
    This is the end of Forsquare, it’s about time.
  5. misterjt reblogged this from zadi
  6. filipszymanski reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    I’m sure everyone at the...office this morning...themselves...
  7. vanessaprat reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    I do not understand how the guys at FB...smart idea? The fact remains so many
  8. zadi reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    Places. Big Brother has just arrived...the epic fights over
  9. pascali reblogged this from soupsoup
  10. mizzchelle reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    That is… extremely disturbing. I hope my...don’t start using this feature, because I...
  11. razorsharp reblogged this from daverosado
  12. deepthinking reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    I’ve already done the obligatory...did a disable here...a an...
  13. adambez said: can I opt out yet?
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  15. heathershae said: hibariapp.com is new and also lets you block certain tweets and is way smaller than Tweetdeck (which I appreciate). I may have to switch to that to avoid location pollution. Yuck.
  16. daverosado reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    Here’s an excellent, concise look into the just-announced...garbage, but is mainly
  17. pinoy-prince reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    I don’t see myself ever using this
  18. idlewyld reblogged this from soupsoup and added:
    this. Chris Cox
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