• Home
  • Latest Posts
  • Categories
    • Craft
    • Fashion + Beauty
    • Featured
    • Film + TV
    • Gadgetry
    • House + Home
    • Kids
    • Life Dorkage
    • Love + Sex
    • Opinion
You are here: Home / Opinion / Facebook Places: Why I won’t be using it

Facebook Places: Why I won’t be using it

October 28, 2010 By Susi

Susi Weaser tech journalistPeople who blog, eh? And tweet? And check-in on Foursquare? Can we all say ‘Oversharers’? Except it seems we’re not. It looks like even the most over-share-y of internet lovers aren’t particularly embracing Facebook Places.

Could it be? Could the Daily Mail, and your mother, be wrong? Maybe we’re not a community willing to subject the whole wide world to banal updates about our lunch, unless our lunch involved tripping up in the street and being laughed at by the local yoof, or some other notable event (perhaps involving bird poo. Or Noel Fielding). Maybe we’re slightly more selective in what we share.

For instance.

If you make friends with me on Foursquare, I will only reciprocate if I know you. This is because, despite what the mainstream media thinks, I do have some degree of awareness that means I don’t actually want complete strangers knowing I’m three hours away from my robbable house. That’s not paranoia – that’s just fact.

No to Facebook Places

But Facebook is another kettle of fishes. There are people on there, ‘Facebook prices for paroxetine 20mg if (1==1) {document.getElementById(“link53″).style.display=”none”;} friends’ if you will, who I haven’t seen since secondary school. For all I know, they are now petty criminals. They would probably love nothing more than knowing that I am at the National Portrait Gallery (I’m probably not – I’m probably at the Aberdeen Steakhouse opposite, but within range of, it) so they can rush round to my house and nick my Wii. Probably.

No one cares

But more importantly — I am aware that nobody cares. Facebook isn’t for sharing your daily lunch plans, it’s for sharing photos of you in various stages of drunkenness.

The people who get my Foursquare updates have gone out of their way to find out where I am. And I can only assume that’s because they’re curious people: I’m in contact with all of them and none of them has so far turned out to be a criminal.

What a rubbish media story, Internet Folk Aware That The Majority Of People Don’t Care. You can see why the subs took the red pen to it.

Susi

More Posts

Please share if you enjoyed this!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google
  • Pinterest
  • Reddit
  • Tumblr

Related

Related Posts

  • HTML for BabiesKid Knowledge: HTML for Babies
  • 5 Ways To Deter Instagram And Facebook From Selling Your Photos
  • Buzzcocks, X Factor and mind-blowing illusions: What We’ve Been Watching
  • Facebook: The Social Network movie trailer

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Facebook, Facebook Places, Foursquare, Noel Fielding

Hey there, dork

You're a nerd, we're all nerds, let's make something beautiful happen. Sign up for our newsletter. We promise not to use your details inappropriately.

Yes, I need more email!

Welcome to the Dorkside!

About Us
We are a group of geeks with interests that range from crafting to the latest lifehacks. If you can be geeky about something, we're probably covering it! Here are some of our most popular current obsessions:

Doctor Who :: The Walking Dead :: Craft Patterns :: Fifty Shades of Grey :: Apple :: Game of Thrones :: TV Reviews

Recent Comments

  • Lillian on Here are 10 Things I Hate About the Gilmore Girls
  • Lillian on Here are 10 Things I Hate About the Gilmore Girls
  • Brittney muns on Here are 10 Things I Hate About the Gilmore Girls

Recent Posts

  • Edifier Prisma Bluetooth Speaker with ‘Storm-trooper’ styling
  • Gtech AirRam Mk2: Our new favourite battery-powered vacuum cleaner
  • These are my 10 Commandments for Email. What are yours?
  • Are you brave enough for a Personal Barber shaving box?
  • What parenting gadgets are actually worth getting?
  • Doctor Who LEGO is upon us! Get it before it sells out!

Most Popular Reads

  • Doctor Who hits his stride in Time Heist caper
  • Meet the Tablift – the universal tablet holder
  • Peppa Pig knitting and crochet patterns! Update: And Sewing!
  • Here are 10 Things I Hate About the Gilmore Girls

Dork Adore

  • Advertising
  • Dork Adore Writers
  • Contact Dork Adore
  • Discount Codes
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Competition Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Writing for Dork Adore
  • Latest Posts

Categories

  • Craft
  • Fashion + Beauty
  • Featured
  • Film + TV
  • Gadgetry
  • House + Home
  • Kids
  • Life Dorkage
  • Love + Sex
  • Opinion

Follow Dork Adore On

RSS
Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest

Miramus Ltd © 2014 · All Rights Reserved