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Facebook tool makes you a better stalker

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As if the Internet wasn’t out to get you enough already, a new Facebook.com and cell phone application allows people to track you down, using GPS and your iPhone against you. The Social Network Integrated Friend Finder (SNIFF), created by Brian Levin, CEO of Useful Networks and the brains behind the American Idol voting system, works on any cell phone.

The product is currently popular in Scandinavia and will be released in Britain soon.

Scott_Bromley

31 responses // Facebook tool makes you a better stalker

  • creepy. Do not want.
    dcuisinot
  • Awesome, stalking people online is fun!
    Swiyyah
  • What a horrible idea. I can't wait until ACLU sues the heck out of these people.
    uroborus8
  • scary!
    xhiaopi
  • I just love that it's called SNIFFing...makes me think of two dogs meeting on a sidewalk....
    tatuaje
  • Web 1984.0!
    digitrash
  • this is seriously scary.

    big brother just keeps getting bigger.

    and what is wrong with those scandinavians.

    weird.
    dirkglitchmann
  • I feel sorry for anybody trying to cheat on there bf or gf
    Theres no way you can lie lol
    Ice_cream_Man
  • Up next: Don't tell Twitter what you're doing, have Twitter tell you what you're doing.

    As connected as Web 2.0 makes us feel, I'm pretty sure there are some lines that need to be drawn before we alter interpersonal relationships to the point of no return.
    ultravphunter
  • Man this is scary. I am still boggled why people are willing to accept that they can be tracked by anyone and everywhere. Not only can stalkers find you--the government will also be able to tell and keep tabs on their sheep.
    digit01
  • A friend of mine summed it up beautifully the other day; Facebook makes good people do bad things. This will just make it easier for our inner psychos to come out. Sometimes I long for my youth where relationships were conducted face to face, people talked, engagements were made and and kept and it was as easy as anything to lie about where you'd been to your parents. Jeez, why don't They just chip us like dogs and be done with it... better still give me the scalpel and I'll do it myself!


    Lina1980
  • Scandinavian's love it, it must be good. You do have to give your permission to be electronically tracked by the service, but something about "Sniff" sure does smell fishy.
    amaness
  • Awww crap, as if we need another method for that creepy ex of yours-or mine-to keep tabs on us. I hate globalization technology.
    chunche
  • I love it. I can finally get all Jason Bourne on my friends (as in track them down, not kill them by slamming a book into their neck...)
    richjm
  • That is really scary... I mean I had enough with stalkers just locally... less thing I need is another one online... Creepy... this makes it easier for people that wants to do harm get a hold of the ones that wants to use this as a friend finder in a friendly way.
    Milu82
  • i actually got rid of my facebook because i felt it was very stalker-ish! everytime i wrote someone, or did something, or uploaded something. ugh.

    i got a new account about four days later though. lol. it really is a great way to keep connected. i found out i can set my settings super high... so if you don't want to be sniffed, don't upload it =)
    organized_chaos
  • sounds a bit april fools'ish to me!
    yonie
  • Read the article! It says, "only consumers who gave their permission could be electronically tracked by the service".
    Ando_SB
  • When A Stranger Calls 2: When A Stranger Uses Facebook.
    elspeth
  • Imagine if there is a computer glitch, or a security hole, like they recently had with private images. There are some of us who like to use the site to connect with friends, but have had a problem with a stalker in the past. One line, perhaps even a misplaced semi-colon in the code, and that program could be exploited to make info available to the general public. As a paranoid person who has coding experience, I don't want this anywhere near me. If it does come to implementation, there will be one less face on Facebook.
    alicynx
  • If you can tell who can and who cannot sniff you, I don't see any problem with it. I personally wouldn't want this, but I don't see how anyone could complain if it is their choice.
    Robijnson
  • Wow, and just as I thought there couldn't be any more reasons to not have Facebook!
    AceHardchester
  • A true stalker doesn't need no tools...I see you, Scott Bromley...
    VSiskos
  • it's scary thinking that if i wanted to... i could find everything out about almost anyone in the world...
    NotCaleb
  • I was talking to friend last night who said that someone has been posting directly after her on a certain website, no matter what the thread. When I asked for how long, she said that it started about 2 months ago and the person always commented on how wonderful and insightful her posts were.
    Before I could respond, she asked, "Is there such a thing as a virtual stalker?"
    The only thing I could think of was the hundreds of thousands of pedophiles that thrive online.
    huntre
  • not only do they know what we like and what we do...now where we go. Its certainly BB overkill. When's it going to stop....
    LeofricFilms
  • Huntre: That's a very scary thought. Has she contacted the administrators of the websites she visits?
    AceHardchester
  • Facebook is going to find itself in trouble one day because more and more people are making demands on what technologies their online social networks provide to support their unwillingness to participate in actual physical interaction...and if Facebook is not careful, they will unleash a new type of cyber pervasion
    BaniProductions
  • AceHc. Yes. She "flagged" the person in question and reported them. She felt victim to what I call obssesive and aggressive anonymity. If someone online is giving you the creeps, trust your instincts and report them.
    huntre

  • creepy, scary, yet very accepted by a lot of people. I have an account, but I mostly for messages to my friends in Iraq who can use facebook to let us all know what's going on with one post instead of having to send out a personal email to everyone.
    irishgirlforever
  • facebook seriously creeps me out. i have friends who frequently talk about how they 'stalk' people on facebook. how is that okay? i think it's very strange for people to feel like they have a right to stalk people online. i guess there was a facebook application that tracked who visited your facebook page and how many times they did it. but there was a huge outcry against the application because people wanted to be able to 'stalk in peace.'

    after finding that out i amped up my privacy settings.
    lastwaysleft

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