Facebook Places: a game changer or has the game already been changed?
So I have a confession to make. I've never been a user of Foursquare. I
don't want people to always know where I am - not that I'm paranoid but I
don't need my mom to have a list of every bar I've visited. Of course you
can always opt out of pushing your location to the masses but I feel iffy
about the whole thing. I do like the yelp type reviews but then again, I
can look at Yelp. Instead of sleeping as I should be, I'm watching the Facebook Places
announcement. Hmmm. So Facebook Places. It's foursquare. On Facebook. So
you now can check in and everyone on Facebook (or just your friends) can
know where you are. Hmmm. Like foursquare. And you can tag your photos by
location. Like I do on Twitter. You can add reviews of places. Like
Foursquare or Yelp. But most scarily, unless you opt out (and this is not
a default setting), anyone can tag you at a place they check in to. And
your friends could be checking in to your house. As the announcement continues, the initial partners include foursquare,
Yelp and Gowilla who are using the Facebook APIs to integrate their
applications with Facebook. Even though they were using this location
based application first. Hmm. So what's the big deal? What's so innovative and new? Nothing. But
Facebook is a growing monolith with numbers unseen by any other social
networking applications. So Foursquare, Yelp and Gowilla, do you sit back
and say - "Hey. That's our shtick"? I guess the answer is no. But how can
they not jump on the Facebook bandwagon? But what do you think? Is this a game changer or has the game already been
changed? **One last note - one of the speakers is going on about how this is a way
to share human stories, interact, dust off old memories. I hope they also
have a way to disable pictures of exes. Some memories I may not want to
relive. In real time or not.**
don't want people to always know where I am - not that I'm paranoid but I
don't need my mom to have a list of every bar I've visited. Of course you
can always opt out of pushing your location to the masses but I feel iffy
about the whole thing. I do like the yelp type reviews but then again, I
can look at Yelp. Instead of sleeping as I should be, I'm watching the Facebook Places
announcement. Hmmm. So Facebook Places. It's foursquare. On Facebook. So
you now can check in and everyone on Facebook (or just your friends) can
know where you are. Hmmm. Like foursquare. And you can tag your photos by
location. Like I do on Twitter. You can add reviews of places. Like
Foursquare or Yelp. But most scarily, unless you opt out (and this is not
a default setting), anyone can tag you at a place they check in to. And
your friends could be checking in to your house. As the announcement continues, the initial partners include foursquare,
Yelp and Gowilla who are using the Facebook APIs to integrate their
applications with Facebook. Even though they were using this location
based application first. Hmm. So what's the big deal? What's so innovative and new? Nothing. But
Facebook is a growing monolith with numbers unseen by any other social
networking applications. So Foursquare, Yelp and Gowilla, do you sit back
and say - "Hey. That's our shtick"? I guess the answer is no. But how can
they not jump on the Facebook bandwagon? But what do you think? Is this a game changer or has the game already been
changed? **One last note - one of the speakers is going on about how this is a way
to share human stories, interact, dust off old memories. I hope they also
have a way to disable pictures of exes. Some memories I may not want to
relive. In real time or not.**
posted by Heather "Tails" Taylor at 2:07 am
2 Comments:
Actually according to Facebook, when a friend of yours first tries to tag you in a check-in, you are notified and asked to choose if this behaviour is OK or not. So panic over!
And regarding photos of exes... if you don't want to relive those memories, just delete the photos, surely (or remove any tags you have on them)?
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