Please Rob Me
John CampbellDo you routinely update social-networking sites with your whereabouts?
Get foursquare on your phone!
Use foursquare to ... tell us your whereabouts. ... we'll tell your friends where they can find you and recommend places to go & things to do nearby. Foursquare will keep track of the things you've done ... and even suggest new experiences to seek out. Every foursquare checkin earns you points. If you've been to a place more than anyone else, you'll become "the mayor". Places ... offer freebies to our mayors - free coffees, free ice-cream, free hotel stays - it pays to be a foursquare loyalist and check-in whenever you go!
We encourage you to tell us where you are for points and maybe discounts. Since we know where you are and where you go, we can target you with ads. When we tell everybody where you are, we're also telling them where you are not.
PleaseRobMe
Hey, do you have a Twitter account? Have you ever noticed those messages in which people tell you where they are? ... Well, they're ... potentially pretty dangerous.
... we love the whole location-aware thing. The information ... can be used to create some pretty awesome applications. However, the way in which people are stimulated to participate in sharing this information, is less awesome. .... The danger is publicly telling people where you are. This is because it leaves one place you're definitely not... home. So here we are ... telling everybody on the internet we're not home. It gets even worse if you have "friends" who ... enter your address, to tell everyone where they are. Your address.. on the internet.. Now you know what to do when people reach for their phone as soon as they enter your home. That's right, slap them across the face.
The goal of this website is to raise some awareness on this issue and have people think about how they use services like Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz etc. Because all this site is, is a dressed up Twitter search page. Everybody can get this information.Social networking can be a treasure trove. Facebook activity is being presented in divorce proceedings.
81% of the nation's top divorce attorneys say they have seen an increase in the number of cases using social networking evidence during the past five years, according to a recent survey of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML). Facebook holds the distinction of being the unrivaled leader for online divorce evidence....
Patrick Murillo"Going through a divorce always results in heightened levels of personal scrutiny. If you publicly post any contradictions to previously made statements and promises, an estranged spouse will certainly be one of the first people to notice and make use of that evidence," said Marlene Eskind Moses, president of the AAML. "As everyone continues to share more and more aspects of their lives on social networking sites, they leave themselves open to much greater examinations of both their public and private lives in these sensitive situations." Facebook is the primary source of this type of evidence according to 66% of the AAML respondents, while MySpace follows with 15%, Twitter at 5%, and other choices listed by 14%.
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