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Location-Aware Social Nets: Lights On, Nobody Home
Posted in: Technology News by admin on February 25, 2010
Last week, Dutch group Forthehack launched PleaseRobMe, a site meant to expose the danger of location-based social networks such as Foursquare, BrightKite, Gowalla, and Google Buzz. Basically, PleaseRobMe says that every time someone posts his location in a location-based social network, that person is publicly announcing that he is not home, which could be taken to mean, no one is home. To illustrate the point, PleaseRobMe rephrases public Foursquare posts to say, “@Username left home and checked in X minutes ago …”
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