Shockingly Tactful

I do not understand how the guys at FB even thought this to be a smart idea? The fact remains so many people were upset with the privacy aspect recently and this just seems like salt on a wound. Plus, anything that is copied so blatantly when the first guy is doing it so well…the next guy always looks like the loser. 

soupsoup:

Facebook Places is basically a Foursquare clone, as expected.

One really nice feature is your friends have to opt-out of you checking them in, awesome, and so Facebook. That’s right, your friends can check you in, even if you didn’t check in yourself. It’s almost as if Facebook wants you to hate them.

People can create a “Place” for your house. At first it’s private, but if enough people check in, it becomes public. 

Because of Facebook’s size, it takes all privacy issues location apps have wrestled with for over 10 years (Dodgeball) and cranks them up to 11.

Think you hated seeing all those Foursquare check-ins in your stream, well get ready to see 500 million users checking into your stream on Twitter and Facebook.

Location based apps are great, if they stay in their silos. Facebook and Twitter streams shouldn’t have check in’s polluting the stream. Currently the only twitter app I know that lets you filter out location check ins is Tweet Deck.