Facebook Places and privacy: What you need to tweak
I’m a big fan of geolocation apps and have been using Foursquare almost since it first arrived on the scene. I like knowing where my friends are and having accidental, synergistic meetings with new friends based on my willingness to share my location information. Facebook, however, is a world where I share my status updates with over 1,300 people and I don’t really want all of them to know where I am most of the time. If I did, I’d include it in a status update!
That’s why when Facebook introduced Facebook Places, I was a bit leery. Worse, not only do they now have check-ins, but they’ll show people who are checked in to your current venue even if you’re not friends, and will let other people check you in if they’re in the same place.
Disaster. But fixable…