The Social Gaffe
Dfn: The Social Gaffe - the power of webtwo-oh to take something dumb you just said and instantly broadcast it to everyone you’ve ever known.
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Thomas Purves
is an Entrepreneur and futurist for hire, lives in the great city of Toronto.
Like accidentally announcing that your wife is pregnant on Facebook?
I’ll never live that down. Damn “Reply to All”
Interesting. I was just about to blog about this myself. I had just logged into FB - and noticed that I had ’sent notifications’ to a number of people that I had changed ‘hoods. Now the interesting thing is that I had added the ‘Neighbourhoods’ application waaay back when and as a laugh, put my location as Jane and Finch (not that there’s anything wrong with that) but deleted the application. I recently added the app back, and lo and behold, it ‘remembered’ that I lived at Jane and Finch, and when I changed locations, it sent notifications to a number of my friends without my immediate knowledge…
So how many applications know and keep your info?