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Hey ~tffb, good to see you!
~bartender? A hot coffee with cream and sugar, please! Thanks!
You found this via my stuff? You actually reading this? Yay! I do have readers, well at least two. Nice.
One other aspect of this /bleakness/ is this: I for my part have tried to not fill the internet with private things about myself. I don't social-network online. I feel very sorry for all the little and not so little children out there, whose parents mindlessly post pictures of them at facebook et al. And then those same parents go up in flames when their children are approached? Well. But technology is complicated.
Way back there was an art project in the Netherlands iirc called "rob me" or something such. It scraped the "we are on vacation in XY" messages on twitter and offered the home addresses of those on vacation --- all just aggregated information. I didn't find anything about it on duckduckgo in one minute, but it must be there. There was another art project, where you could order coffee mugs with pictures of children/people from your neighborhood or elsewhere --- again just scraped of the net. I mean, yea, "don't do this" to the vendor of said coffee mugs is only one end of the story. It takes two to tango, as the saying goes.
But there I am, holding snide speeches to an imaginary audience, which doesn't even bother to listen. So I might as well just shut up.
Enjoy the bleakness!
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Google found a mention, but not the original project
> nk497 writes
> "Developers looking to prove a point about the information people are sharing on social networking sites have unveiled a new tool called Please Rob Me. It hunts out tweets from people who are also using location-based services telling the world that they're out of town, and then directs the world to go rob their house. The creators of the site said: 'Don't get us wrong, we love the whole location-aware thing. The information is very interesting and can be used to create some pretty awesome applications. However, the way in which people are stimulated to participate in sharing this information is less awesome.' How long until the first actual robbery takes place?"
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