Posts tagged “location-based services”

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: [...]