LAST week Facebook launched, Places, a new application on its site that allows users to post their location in their status updates.
For a start do I, or anybody for that fact, really care if an old school ‘friend’ (who hasn’t spoken to me for years and I haven’t ‘liked’ or commented on any picture update or comment related to them) has just gone to Pret for lunch? The answer is probably no.
Places may have its merits for those out there who are inclined to stalk people in a professional way. It will no doubt make their lives easier. Besides this is it just a case of putting out yet more personal information on the net.
We very rarely think about the information or private data we post or publish on the Internet. It is undeletable, once released into the World Wide Web it is there forever. Facebook status updates and pointless tweets will be floating around cyberspace long after we die.
As we share more of our life online it’s important to remember that anyone out there could be reading.
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