'Girls Around Me' App Could Also Be Known As 'The Stalker App'

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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New App on Facebook Lets You Choose Enemies

There is a new Facebook app called EnemyGraph that allows users to designate other Facebookers, companies, brands, places, and anything else they choose as an "enemy". You can even make any page or group on Facebook an "enemy".

Most social networks attempt to connect people based on affinities, such as you like a certain band or film so you think "I like them, therefore we should be friends." But people can also become connected through things they dislike. (If only there was a "dislike" button.) Alliances are created, conversations are generated, and friendships are enhanced.

Facebook usually runs queries to find affinities. EnemyGraph runs dissonance queries. So, say you put on your profile that you "liked" the Robert Pattinson Fan Page. If one of your friends had declared them as an "enemy" then that "dissonance report" will show up in the EnemyGraph app. In other words, the app will point out a difference you have with a friend and offer it up as a potential conversation, instead of focusing on your similarities.

Relationships aren't always built on similarities; differences are also important. EnemyGraph is a neat new app on Facebook that enhances social interaction. One user described EnemyGraph as a way to "interact with your friends over common enemies...creating alliances based on shared animosities."

Although, one thing this app needs to be careful of is making sure this negativity doesn't take over Facebook. For example, students using this as a chance to bully others and create ways to humiliate others. This could easily become a sick tool to create a lot of unwanted drama.