I think it's something that scares the technologically unsophisticated. It seems a lot of the time people are rapidly introduced to new things only when something bad happens (pedos on myspace, incriminating photos on facebook, pro-killers on craigslist, crank-parades on chatroulette, etc.). I never saw any column-inches devoted to the evils of the Fido-Net! :)
On 4/11/10, Levi Wallach <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't understand what's scary about this. Seems like common sense - if > you use your regular email address or name for these services, and make your > locations available to the public, duh, these are accessible by anyone! Can > someone use them to profile you, sure! Will someone do this to try to sell > you something? Maybe. The article doesn't mention anything really sinister > to me except when it references Minority Report, which is science FICTION. > You can dream up all kinds of Orwellian ways this info can be used, but the > same thing can be said for credit card transactions. Generally I think you > can be paranoid about anything and if you are, then just get off the > Internet, don't use bank accounts, use cash for everything, don't own any > property that requires some kind of license or deed, etc., etc. Either > that, or move to a developing country where the infrastructure is what it > was here 50-75 years ago (except for cell phones). If you don't want people > to know you went to X nightclub because that might somehow endanger you in > some way or infringe on your privacy, well, don't check in! Checking in is > the equivelent of telling lots of people you went somewhere. Even with > safeguards, there's no guarantee that those "friends" might not let others > know whom you don't want to know. This is just another example (to me) of > people blaming technology for something that can happen even without it. > Sure, it requires you to actually THINK about what you are > posting/revealing and what the consequence might be, but again, I fail to > see how anything here is surprising or scary. > > > Levi Wallach > blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com > tweet me @dvdmon (http://twitter.com/dvdmon) > > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Jim Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Divorce or not, I found this very interesting/scary. Just goes to show you >> gotta' be careful with location sharing etc! >> >> Here's a website I think you'll like: Foursquare Becomes Great Predictor >> Of >> Divorce >> >> Jim >> (Via Palm Pre) >> >>
