I’m so upset and worried about the Facebook/Foursquare/Gowalla marriage from hell where you can’t get your home address deleted once it’s posted unless you get enough friends to “flag” a check-in that I’m quitting Foursquare and Gowalla — for starters (that link is to a friend asking Mark Zuckerberg how tho get his home address deleted from Facebook’s new “Places” feature, announced a few hours ago, which makes a location public if it gets “popular” — and homes are, apparently according to this video, to FB anyone’s home is fair game.) Also: “By default people near you can see where you are and your friends can check you into a location without your consent.” (Buzz link)
As a distraction I visited Our Kitchen Sink, where they fantasized about Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis scissoring. So I present what I’d rather be doing: looking at the newest Australian amateur Girls Out West gallery of Anais and Evette scissoring to soothe. Add this gallery of Bonny and Peppe having girl-girl sex for the first time as GoW proprietor Annie watched and filmed, and I can chill down a bit while I delete my accounts.
Ugh.
Not on subject but I ran across this surprisingly positive article about a gentleman’s club that I went to growing up in Denver that I thought you might be interested in.
Women owned and all, it kind of spoiled me for the few other clubs that I’ve gown to since the 80s.
Anyway, enjoy
http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_15571341?source=pop
To paraphrase Leo Laporte: “SCREW YOU, FACEBOOK!” :D
Looks like the Places stuff is now live for us UK folks. I’ve not got any GPS-enabled devices on me, so I’m safe for now, but I’m probably going to turn off all all that location crap. If I want to let people know I’m having a good time, I’ll do it the old-fashioned way, by blogging about it, or taking a photo and posting it later on. I’ve seen the Foursquare stuff in people’s tweets, and that stuff leaves me cold, to be honest.
I love Facebook as a way to stay in touch with my friends, and to share stuff I find on the Internet, so I’m loath to delete my account. I’ve already locked down who can see what on my profile, etc. Guess I’ll just have to keep my ear to the ground for the latest on how to undo whatever tweak Facebook decided to do next… :P
You know I hate all of these “services” with a passion. Whether it’s “free” blogging services, photo sharing, or various kinds of social media, I’ve seen too many cycles of the inevitable “burn” stories that crop up when corporate motivations clash with user interests. I’ve flirted with Twittr and Tumblr, but even there I know the burn is coming.
And yet the social benefits of social media are so obviously compelling, people have a hard time staying away (or canceling their accounts) to avoid corporate abuse, unless they started out as anti-social curmudgeons and refusniks like me who still think email is a perfectly fine tool for staying in touch.
The “obvious” answer is a toolset for social networking that takes the power out of corporate hands and distributes it into the hands of the user. Some sort of open source social media toolset, though you’d probably also need peer-to-peer distributed hosting without corporate megabucks serverfarms to run the thing.