If you find out everything about someone by talking to lots of people, then put the information together and tell everyone else, are you being creepy? Or are you just a gossip? That’s the gist of the argument raging around the controversial Girls Around Me iOS app. The app scours Facebook and FourSquare for information women have posted on these services’ public pages. It then collates that data and ties it to those women’s current geolocation as provided on FourSquare. The app’s users can then see a list of those women who happen to be in their vicinity.
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Girls Around Me App: It's Complicated
Posted by: Richard Adhikari April 3, 2012 02:43 PMIf you find out everything about someone by talking to lots of people, then put the information together and tell everyone else, are you being creepy? Or are you just a gossip? That’s the gist of the argument raging around the controversial Girls Around Me iOS app. The app scours Facebook and FourSquare for information women have posted on these services’ public pages. It then collates that data and ties it to those women’s current geolocation as provided on FourSquare. The app’s users can then see a list of those women who happen to be in their vicinity.