New Automatically enabled Facebook feature tells others where you are
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Posted on: 2010-08-19 11:09 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
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Indeed. Continuity is important.
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Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
Marcian is an androygnous llama. I thought we established this!
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Can't it be both?|
Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
Marcian is an androygnous llama. I thought we established this!
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Have AI Marcian be this universe's Marcian and androgynous llama being a dimension hopper out slumming?
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You could always have a reboot.
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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
Indeed. Continuity is important.
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I've never set up a Facebook, Twitter, or Myspace account, despite friends and family urging me to.
This is not out of concern for privacy, in truth I'll tell you more than you want to know about me with little prompting, short of my SS or credit card #s. No, in truth I've never gotten into it because I'm incurably lazy, and it'd always be months out of date because I'd simply forget about it. Hell it's only because of my Blackberry that I check my email more than once a month, if that.
Really the very concept of constantly updating what I'm doing seems very odd to me. If I was famous or good-looking or selling something, sure, but just an average lug like me? Whatever.
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Eh, chase is a friend of mine for nearly 30 years, we have both helped each other at different times and i know that were i to suddenly need to take all my material possessions and give them to someone else for a time, i would trust him. he gets on my friend list. a former co worker of mine who i can talk intelligently about music and some more mainstream nerd-isms and politics, he is not on the friend list. Generally my friend list is made up of deep trust friend who i have known for over a decade and have shared some experiences that indicate i could trust them seriously those are my facebook friends...or girls i really wanted to @#$% |
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... |
for some years i posted on another message board "the next level" it was kind of similar to unleashed actually, i had individuals there who i tended to have similar tastes with and would have called friends, but when i got sick of said board's attitude, i was gone and they haven't been seen again, they were internet friends, transient, unattached, real friends are described above.
Gosh darn it, Facebook, if you're going to pull crap like this out of your butts, at least have it disabled by default. Man.
I've got a Facebook account, mostly because I have a brother halfway across the country who only seems to communicate with people via Facebook's chat system. I'm in the camp that only friends people if I know them face-to-face, and even then, they're not likely to make it. I knew a lot of people in high school who thought they were my friends no matter how clear I made it that they were skeezy slimebags and I wanted nothing to do with them.
Denying their friend requests is one of those small joys that make me think I'm not as nice a person as I like to believe.
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An internet friend will tell the forum you'll be "away" for a few months for "personal reasons".|
Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
they were internet friends, transient, unattached, real friends are described above.
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A friend will bail you out of jail.
A real friend will be in the cell next to you.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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Thanks for this link; I've passed it onto several of my friends now, some of whom I only stay in contact with through Facebook. I feel a bit more secure now, thanks again.
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Seriously, I don't get the hatred some people have for Facbook, and the similar sites like Twitter, but especially Facebook.
It's a site that gives you comeplete control over what you want to display. If I want to show something to the public, I can, but I have everything set to Friends Only, took me about 20 seconds to check it was set like that.
If I don't want people to see things, I either don't put it on there or I don't add someone as a friend. I'm careful what i put on it, I don't play about 99% of the games on there as most of them are dull and pointless and if I have a £1500 PC and a Wii if I want to play games 
I'm choosy about who I want on there, not one of my work colleagues is on there, for instance, as most of them work for me and I don't want them to see things I do, plus the company I work for doesn't like it either, conflict of interests and all that. Maybe I'm just blunt, but if people ask me why I won't add them on FB, I tell them simply, I don't want to. It's not that big a deal.
Any info I put on there, I added, not FB. Any info I made public was done by me, not FB. I have the control on it and if that ever was to change I'd vote with my feet and delete it all
And there's the thing. People talk about their business plan, but given how amazingly successful FB is, it's not in their interests to willingly annoy their users by sneakily adding things like this and making people leave in droves, thus losing all their advertising revenue. Where's the business sense in that?
It's easy, decide who you want on there and what you want on there. Works for me
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To quote a famous sci-fi character, "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."|
Originally Posted by Coin
Any info I put on there, I added, not FB. Any info I made public was done by me, not FB. I have the control on it and if that ever was to change I'd vote with my feet and delete it all
And there's the thing. People talk about their business plan, but given how amazingly successful FB is, it's not in their interests to willingly annoy their users by sneakily adding things like this and making people leave in droves, thus losing all their advertising revenue. Where's the business sense in that? It's easy, decide who you want on there and what you want on there. Works for me |
Maybe guys like Nostradamus had it all wrong.
Maybe the Anti-Christs we need to worry about aren't nasty evil people but nasty evil Internet apps...
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if your on my friends list then I don't mind you knowing where I am, since I do have a "show up at my place unannounced and the next place you'll be checking into is the Intensive Care Ward" rule. But that "allow friends to share where / check you in" yeah, that could be problematic. Thanks for the info M_T!!!
Thanks for the video Marcian. I'll probably keep it on for now for Friends Only, but I'm disabling that crap that allows friends to check me in. If I want you to know where I'm at, I'll do it myself, TYVM 
Lucky for me, firefox browser seems to stop a lot of unwanted stuff from activating, this issue being one of them, so, Yay for firefox!
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I was watching the BBC news late last night and they had a feature on this. An industry insider was warning that it will be common in the future for people to be changing their names and Identities to try to escape their 'virtual footprint' that has built up over the years.
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i LIKE it.
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Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
An internet friend will tell the forum you'll be "away" for a few months for "personal reasons".
A friend will bail you out of jail. A real friend will be in the cell next to you. |
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Damn, son. My friends show up unannounced and get fed pretty much anything in the house that they want to eat. Sometimes we even have near-gourmet level food available. >.>|
Originally Posted by ShoNuff
I do have a "show up at my place unannounced and the next place you'll be checking into is the Intensive Care Ward" rule.
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My friends enjoy coming over to our house.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
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Are these your friends?|
Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
Damn, son. My friends show up unannounced and get fed pretty much anything in the house that they want to eat. Sometimes we even have near-gourmet level food available. >.>
My friends enjoy coming over to our house. |
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I like Places for a couple of reasons:|
Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
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.
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1 - It doesn't just start broadcasting your location automatically, as the person I'm quoting mentions. You need to check-in with a gps-enabled device (or through your PC), so those that want to use it will and those that don't, won't.
2 - Yes you can control it. It involves tweeking your privacy settings, but you can control who sees your checked-in location, whether or not friends can check you in somewhere, and whether or not you show up as "is here" on that location's page.
3 - It gives me another level of play to my favorite FB game: "Spam Your Friends' Update Page"
I also think it will be cool to get special offers by location (this is really where a service like this will show value for FB... marketing dollars). You check into the mall, and start getting text messages about sales at the mall's stores. You came to buy jeans... well look! The GAP has jeans on sale, etc. You don't want those text messages? Easy, just don't check-in.
I also hope that it might teach people that to be more conservative with who they add to their friends lists. If you have 2000 FB "friends", you probably don't want all of them knowing not only that you're at the mall, but also that you're not at home.
EDIT - Oops, didn't realize the lifehacker guide was updated to mention friends' apps grabbing your location info.
Of course, if you disable this check-in feature, Big Brother knows you are trying to hide something.
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The simple reason is this; when a new feature is added, FB does so with the assumption that you will want to use it and share with your friends and everyone else. Rather than adding a new feature that people can activate, they add another nuisance that I need to opt out of in order to protect my privacy. It seems like once a month I'm disabling something new that they've added.
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Originally Posted by Coin
Seriously, I don't get the hatred some people have for Facbook, and the similar sites like Twitter, but especially Facebook.
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