Yesterday we all got word that Facebook is announcing something Wednesday and that the something was going to be some location services like Foursquare. My gut told me that if Facebook did announce a location/checkin system that privacy would be a big concern—If Facebook launches “location services” would you use them?—and it looks like I [...]
Yep, I called it: Foursquare fires a privacy shot across Facebook’s bow
Filed Under: Internet Life, Social Media Tagged With: Facebook, Foursquare, online privacy, privacy
If Facebook launches “location services” would you use them?
Word has come from Mashable and All Things D that Facebook is announcing something on Wednesday and the rumour is that we’re going to see the much-anticipated location services to take Foursquare, Gowalla, and Yelp head on. I’m a reasonably active Foursquare user (Disclosure: As you know, I’m in the midst of writing a book [...]
Filed Under: Internet Life, Social Media Tagged With: Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp
There is something different about Foursquare friends, methinks
Later today, because I’m still cogitating on chapter/lesson 3, I’m going to send the first 25% of Teach Yourself Foursquare in 10 Minutes to my editor. The reason that I didn’t send them yesterday as per the schedule is that a) I got sick of working in Word (since I prefer to use Scrivener, as [...]
Filed Under: Books, Internet Life, Social Media, Teach Yourself Foursquare Tagged With: Facebook, Foursquare, Foursquare books, Social Networking, twitter
Didn’t Quit Facebook Poll: People do care about privacy
As I talked about yesterday, there is some debate about whether or not Quit Facebook Day was a success or not. My take is, yes, if and only because it raised people’s awareness about privacy issues—Quit Facebook Day Didn’t Fail It Acheived Its Goals: Discussion and Awareness—Rob Cottingham doesn’t feel that it was because of [...]
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Quit Facebook Day Didn’t Fail It Acheived Its Goals: Discussion and Awareness
Yesterday was Quit Facebook Day (QFD) and according to reports about 30,000 people closed their accounts yesterday which is leading people to call it a failure—‘Quit Facebook’ protest day flops – Telegraph, but that is an entirely over simplistic view of what was trying to be accomplished. I knew this would probably happen (no legion [...]
Filed Under: Internet Life, Lifestreaming, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0 Tagged With: Facebook, online identity, online privacy, personal privacy, Quit Facebook Day, Technology
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