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Comment on The idiocy of immediacy by Eamonn

Eamonn — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:00:49 +0000

Generally if someone is waiting outside your house waiting for you to leave, you don’t tell them where you’re going or how far away that is from your house. With Twitter/Facebook/Foursquare, they can find that out. And yes, obviously alarms are there for a reason, but there is a real danger inherent in broadcasting your location for the whole world to see. Not just from a burglary point of view. Also, do you seriously think alarms put burglars off? They couldn’t care less. It’s going to take the cops ages to respond to any alarm, by which time a burglar will be long gone.

Is it paranoia? Hardly. At least billionaires and rich people have bodyguards. If some stalker, rapey type takes a fancy to a particular random person, they could very easily start following them on Twitter/Foursquare etc and find out their movements – both regular and irregular and use that information to stalk them or catch them on their own. There are a lot of creepy people out there. I’m not suggesting people should stop using these services, I’m saying that we need to think about what we’re doing with them and look at the potential pitfalls presented by these new applications.

Comment on The idiocy of immediacy by Ellen Dudley

Ellen Dudley — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:07:08 +0000

Ya but could someone not just stand outside your house and wait for you to leave? And isn’t that what eircom alarms are for?

Is this not just paranoia? – unless you are a rich billionaire, or famous person, how does it really impact your life?

Comment on The idiocy of immediacy by Conor

Conor — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:41:54 +0000

Or Mossad – I think the video footage showed them checking the Syrian blokes Foursquare page – he definitely wasn’t in. Schoolboy error.

Comment on Foursquare hits Dublin by admin

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:27:41 +0000

I’m curious to see which pubs/restaurants get it quickest. Who will have the first promo for the mayor and his/her friends? The guys from Le Cirk on Dame Street were pretty proactive about engaging with bloggers in the past….

Comment on Foursquare hits Dublin by Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:14:19 +0000

I know it is going to be awesome, there is no doubting that. The big worry have is that businesses will get caught up in it as the next big thing and spend loads of time on it when the market just isn’t there in terms of volume of people using the service. Gonna be interesting though!