Comments on: Upscoop, Stalk… er… Find Your Friends on Their Social Networks

By: razors

razors — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:56:35 +0000

This is my first time here so I’m just writing a quick post to say hi. Looks like a decent forum so I’m happy to be involved. lol, that’s really all I got

By: TranceMist

TranceMist — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:35:00 +0000

“Privacy is an illusion.”

By: Barry

Barry — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:53:00 +0000

Disturbing, very disturbing.
Personally I think you are better off just asking your friends if they are on social networks and ask them to link you in.
As for following around your exes, well I guess some people have too much free time

You are right about privacy being somewhat of an issue on the internet.
People have an unreasonable sense of privacy on the net and believe they can post anything without fear of people close to them finding out.
Or even prospective employers.

But really, there is no privacy on the internet and you must assume that everything you ever put online will follow you until the end of time.

Profilactic looks interesting though, I’ll look into it.

By: Shawn Morton

Shawn Morton — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:25:00 +0000

I think where Upscoop’s model falls apart is in that fact that people often have several e-mail addresses.

I am betting the one that people give to friends and the one that people use to sign up for all of the Web 2.0 beta services are different.

If that is the case, then you will never find all of their profiles.

You’re better off finding them on a site like Profilactic where your friend sets up all of the profiles and content that they want to share. It even supports Zooomr!

BTW, I’m the co-founder of Profilactic, so take that last paragraph with a grain of salt

http://www.profilactic.com/mashup/smorty71