This app perfectly distills why so many people are concerned with issues relating to Facebook, specifically in association with privacy. Here is an app that shows girls' locations on a Google Map; making it simple and easy for someone to literally stalk you. Plus, not only the app give your name, picture, and location, but it starts up with an image of a green grid with outlines of strippers' bodies. Creepy, much?
How does 'Girls Around Me' pick which girls? Easy. Through FaceBook. Girls that have their profile set to public are most likely unaware that their information is being given to anyone, including people you don't want knowing who you are. AKA - stalkers (or worse). Girls that show up on this app have public Facebook profiles and have checked into these locations recently using Foursquare. Girls Around Me then shows you a map where all the girls in your area trackable by Foursquare area. If there's more than one girl at the location, then the number of girls there will show up in a red bubble. Just click on the red bubble and you'll see pictures of all the girls who are at that location at any given time. The pictures are their social network profile pictures.
This is a warning to any of the women that don't know about this app. This "stalker app" is definitely one to be aware of. If you don't want people knowing where you are, keep your setting set on private. You can't go wrong with setting everything to private. If someone wants to know where you are, it's called "picking up the phone and asking you." Just saying!
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