Spokeo - The Big Brother of Social?
February 3rd, 2008
Written By: Adam Sussman
This is the first I heard about them. Spokeo is a way for you to track all your friends online “social” activity by using their news reader.
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Here’s what’s slightly (okay, a bit more than slightly) creepy about Spokeo, however; you don’t have to invite anyone, approve anyone, or really do much of anything. Getting all your contacts set up is as simple as providing your email address and password, and Spokeo will import your contacts and start crawling the sites to find updates.
Here’s the kicker: you don’t necessarily have to be friends with the people in your contact list in order to see what they are doing on many of the sites. From Twitter tweets to Picasa photo albums (which, quite honestly, I had no idea anyone I knew even USED), whatever people in your address book are doing on the 33 sites, you will have it dumped into your feed.
Check out these social sites you can monitor (many of which I never heard of).
February 3rd, 2008 18:03
This is actually very creepy. All the more reason not to say anything online you wouldn’t proudly say in RL. Not only is Big Brother watching but Big Sister, Little Sister, Big Brother and every other relative you never much liked.
Be careful out there (TM Hill Street Blues)
February 5th, 2008 16:26
I’ve always wondered about that. I have that social bookmark plugin on a couple of my blogs and I always laugh when I see people who have like 40 social links on each post.
May 4th, 2008 23:01
That’s really scary. I really don’t know about all this new internet stuff that allows you find out everything about everyone. I recently got out of Facebook because the privacy thing got too complicated for me. Don’t we all need to get off the grid every once in a while? lol