Posts tagged “facebook”
Stranger Danger
One more reason not to talk to strangers, at least on Facebook. They’re launching a new feature called social authentication, and if your friends list is full of people you don’t actually know, you could be locked out of your account: Instead of showing you a traditional captcha on Facebook, one of the ways we [...]
Why I don’t want you to tag me on Facebook Places
This morning, Facebook rolled out Places, their location-based service that lets users “check in” to places in the real world. Think Foursquare, Gowalla, et al, but on a much larger scale. Places is only available in the US right now, but still, that’s 131 million users. Here’s what I find particularly scary about this announcement: [...]
After a long while of resisting, I’m properly on Facebook, with friends and everything. This, of course, means I can no longer use the following joke: “No, I’m not on Facebook. I use Craigslist.”