New Automatically enabled Facebook feature tells others where you are
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Agonus,
Posted on: 2010-08-19 11:09 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
I like Foursquare because it has badges.
If you slap badges on something for doing something arbitrary, I will do those arbitrary tasks and love it.
Of course, I am sure you guys have no idea what I am talking about 
"Ben is short for Frank."
-Baffling Beer-Man, The Tenacious 3: The Movie
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I certainly don't want you knowing where my secret volcano lair is.
Serious: I don't understand why they think people would like this as a default.
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
If I actually used Facebook more than like once a month, I might be concerned. But I also signed up with an alias too. ^_^
Regardless, if any of my real information was on that ridiculous site, I'd be pissed.
Tales of Judgment. Also here, instead of that other place.
good luck D.B.B.
Back in my day, a psychotic stalker had to do it the HARD WAY! None of this fancy technological mumbo-jumbo! You had to wait in the bushes outside thier house! In the rain! With bugs crawling on you and your feet getting wet!
Now, get off my lawn!
*shakes cane*
Good grief.
Disabled. Thanks for the heads up. I'm starting to wonder why I'm still bothering with Facebook. I should delete my account. Or at least trim it down to just the five to ten people I actually care about keeping in touch with.
@Quasadu
"We must prepare for DOOM and hope for FREEM." - SirFrederick
I always get a good laugh when crazies complain about 'big brother' since, as Facebook has shown us, the overwhelming majority of people will gladly give that information over without reservation.
They ALL float down here. When you're down here with us, you'll float too!
@Starflier
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I wish I could QFE this into the hides of so many people.
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Originally Posted by Starflier
I always get a good laugh when crazies complain about 'big brother' since, as Facebook has shown us, the overwhelming majority of people will gladly give that information over without reservation.
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To be fair, there is a marked difference between choosing to surrender your information and having it taken from you with no recourse.
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Originally Posted by Starflier
I always get a good laugh when crazies complain about 'big brother' since, as Facebook has shown us, the overwhelming majority of people will gladly give that information over without reservation.
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Yet one more reason I'm quite relieved I subscribe/have memberships at ZERO (yes, zero. Not one, not two, but none) social networking/tweeting/whatever else ******** you want to call it sites. I'm firmly in the "If you need to know then you bloody well do already" camp regarding personal info.
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The funny thing is. . .It was via Facebook that I found out about this and thus able to disable it.
This is exactly why I don't use Facebook, because of stupid [censored] like this.
Public Service Reminder:
- You are not Facebook's customer.
- Facebook's customers are their advertisers and app makers.
- Your web presence and personal data are the products Facebook offers them.
- Facebook's supplier is you - and you work for free.
And yet I checked mine and it was off.
I hate all this paranoia stuff, like Facebook are trying to steal all your secrets and sell them on to the highest bidder whilst secretly telling everyone what you're doing at 4 in the morning in that street with the red light.....
We built this city on Rock and Roll!
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That's pretty much their business plan.
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Originally Posted by Coin
And yet I checked mine and it was off.
I hate all this paranoia stuff, like Facebook are trying to steal all your secrets and sell them on to the highest bidder whilst secretly telling everyone what you're doing at 4 in the morning in that street with the red light..... |
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Indeed and correct. Open up an "official" page and tell Facebook you want to advertise that page. Then witness the severe amount of checklists you have at your disposal as you converse with their system on your specific demographic.|
Originally Posted by Smersh
That's pretty much their business plan.
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I promise you this and will stake dollars on it: Now that "Places" exists, the pop-up ads you get won't tailor to your state or country; They'll tailor to your neighborhood and street.
The only thing that one may use to defend "Places" being enabled as default is that you have to check in to a place to have it show up at all. So you need to actively use it for it to matter.
On the flipside, "you" can be your friends checking in for you. So then you have no control.
"Ben is short for Frank."
-Baffling Beer-Man, The Tenacious 3: The Movie
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Since the only way I access Facebook is from my computer at home, the only place I'd be shown is at home.
Sometimes it's a good idea to unplug oneself from public purview. I wish Foursquare would go away as well. I really don't care that you "checked in" at the McDonald's down the street.
Loose --> not tight.
Lose --> Did not win, misplace, cannot find, subtract.
One extra 'o' makes a big difference.
Deleted my Facebook months ago. I didn't regret it then, and I definitely don't regret it now. Simply disgusting.
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We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
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What he said. The only reason I have a Facebook account at all was to look up a friend's email address which was hidden to anonymous visitors. The only reason my page has any information on it is because my mother asked me to, so that she could set me as a 'son' relationship. And I've got pretty much everything either disabled, or hidden from everyone but friends. And the only friends I've got are actual friends, who I know and speak to in real life.|
Originally Posted by Agonus
If I actually used Facebook more than like once a month, I might be concerned.
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And the only actual use I've gotten out of Facebook was to inform another friend when his email account was hijacked by a spambot.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
I am so glad I've never signed up for any of those sites. I'm sure those who have may find some sort of enjoyment in it, but I personally like having my privacy intact, thank you very much.
There's just way too much peer pressure in those places to go ahead and divulge all sorts of personal information. That people willingly, gleefully do so is a bit bothersome to me.
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Part of the Repeat Offenders
Still waiting for his Official BackAlleyBrawler No-Prize
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This tier system mentality on friends has always messed with me. I have no idea how tall some of you are, but that doesn't mean they are lesser friends.|
Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
And the only friends I've got are actual friends, who I know and speak to in real life.
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Also the phrase "Real life". Barring an Inception like twist, this is real exchange you and I are having...
I went through the hoops to nuke my facebook account from orbit 2 days ago. The constant stream of ignorance was too much for me to handle.
Be well, people of CoH.
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Marcian, you're great and all, but you don't make the cut for my friends on Facebook. My Facebook friends list includes my family, my gaming group, friends from high school and college, exchange students our family has hosted, and friends of the family.|
Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
This tier system mentality on friends has always messed with me. I have no idea how tall some of you are, but that doesn't mean they are lesser friends.
Also the phrase "Real life". Barring an Inception like twist, this is real exchange you and I are having... |
But don't feel bad. I can get pretty chummy with some members of the Repeat Offenders, but none of them make the cut either.
My general rule: If I haven't met you, you don't make it. And I've ignored a fair number of friend requests from people I have met, too. (As a great example, the chick who accepted my buddy's marriage proposal, and then cut it off to go date some other guy a month later. She tried to friend me, and got denied.)
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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Provided of course, that you aren't some time travelling AI system designed to mimic a human and lull those of us still connected to the Matrix into accepting our role as disposable batteries...
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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
This tier system mentality on friends has always messed with me. I have no idea how tall some of you are, but that doesn't mean they are lesser friends.
Also the phrase "Real life". Barring an Inception like twist, this is real exchange you and I are having... |
Guide to disable it.
Short version: Places is an automatically enabled feature that tracks your IP/GPS/Flow of Life Mana to figure out exactly where you are. It then makes this information available to a number of people on your Facebook page. It's become 4Sqaure without asking you.
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If this is a concern to you, please disable. If not, keep it and rock out with your bad, bad self. For me personally, this is a huge concern. You all know certain aspects of my life are closely guarded secrets and any program that compromises them without my permission "For my convenience" is unsettling. I can't imagine anyone really truly caring whether I log into Facebook from work or my home.
Also, I think that 4Sqaure is a pile of narcissistic techno-bile. Since I've also tweeted that, however, the irony is too heavy around my ankles. It shackles me and keeps me from marching on their "social" networks.