I don’t think I ran across a single blog yesterday that thought Facebook places was a great idea. We all know it was derived from Foursquare, Gowalla and their cousins. People detest “friends” being able to check you into places, and privacy groups are waging another war with Facebook.
I think enough has been said about how stupid of an idea this is from Facebook’s end. My major problem with Facebook places was when I tried to launch it, I got this:
Before I complain about a feature, I’m willing to at least try it. However, Facebook apparently released the version of the iPhone app that didn’t work (3.2), and I had to later install a new version (3.2.1) to get Places to function properly. Facebook, next time, launch the version of the app that actually works. Your users will thank you.
Regardless of that blunder, Places worries me. The logo, which my friend Maura pointed out, is a square with a four inside. FourSquare, anyone? There’s evil genius at work.
Thankfully, for every person that checks you in somewhere you can always send them this threat, so wonderfully articulated by my friend Laurie.
You got that? We will start checking you into Wal-Mart if you misbehave. You’ve been warned.
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