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by zombielifestyle 5292 days ago
i can't manage fb to share location information from friend accounts. if 2 accounts upload an (similar) image including one active check-in fb only suggests locations based on the check-ins of that active account. this is even true for public images.

until someone provides a POC that states the opposite it's just YOUR data that YOU freely give to fb. no magic behind, just FUD.

responded to top post for karmawhoring. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3377267

1 comments

I've been working for some time (solo) on a concept that could manage to alleviate some of your concerns. There are ways around them today (API), but who knows if they'll be foreclosed upon in the future.

Like many old farts, I imagine, I see your post in terms of the thick-client/thin-client battles of years past. I don't think FB will ever see it in their interests to completely close their garden, which would really be remaking the mistakes of the past, but stranger things have happened.