Stalkers. Creeps. Weirdos. Terror. Welcome To Location, Facebook
August 20, 2010 at 06:46 AM EDT
The countdown is officially on for the big Facebook location backlash. How long will it be? One week? Two weeks? We all know it's coming, it's just a matter of when. And that's too bad because I think Places is actually pretty great -- potentially. The ACLU wasted little time yesterday trying to start such a backlash (their post on the matter came what, a whole 30 seconds after the press conference ended?). Evelyn already did a nice job deconstructing many of their arguments and showing why a few were ridiculous. All I can add is to say that thank god the ACLU doesn't design consumer apps -- it would be like Facebook's current nightmare of settings multiplied by a billion. We'd have settings for individual minutes in individual days for when individual users could see individual profiles. It would be the the least social social network ever.