Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Comments on Some Thoughts on Location Based Services Like Gowalla and FourSquare

Comment by Robin on "Some Thoughts on Location Based Services Like Gowalla and FourSquare"

suppressed@unknown.org (Robin) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:29:40 GMT

Whether facebook is only for friends depends on your definition of "Friend". I have around 40 "friends" on Facebook. Many of them I haven't met in years and will probably not meet in many more years. They are "contacts", people I know, people who've wandered through my life at some point and happen to have got my email address. Many of my facebook "friends" have several hundred "friends" and it seems like there's a competition to increase your friend count. But, going by my definition of friend, I don't think it is possible to have more than 20 or 30 friends at anyone time. The rest are just acquaintances or contacts. I think that's what Dennis was implying with "real-life" friends.

Posted by: Robin

Comment by Leo Petr on "Some Thoughts on Location Based Services Like Gowalla and FourSquare"

suppressed@unknown.org (Leo Petr) — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:41:20 GMT

@Otto: I don't think Facebook is only for friends. Would you turn down a friend request from a relative? Would you turn down a friend request from your manager or a coworker? Neither relatives nor coworkers need to know my opinions or activities with regards to sex, religion, politics, or a myriad other things. Facebook does have access control lists, but locking things down tighter than friends-only requires more work than I am willing to expend. Unfortunately, for me at least, the Facebook audience is now mixed company.

Posted by: Leo Petr

Comment by Otto on "Some Thoughts on Location Based Services Like Gowalla and FourSquare"

suppressed@unknown.org (Otto) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:39:31 GMT

Dennis is out of his mind. Facebook is *only* for friends. Only crazy people are friends with strangers on Facebook. Virtually everybody else uses it to communicate with a small, limited, group of people. Facebook location sharing will simply destroy FourSquare, Gowalla, and every other location aware application. If they can get the privacy right, of course.

Posted by: Otto