Yeah, but creeps shouldn't get any help. Make creeps work to be creepy and you dissuade the marginal creep.

My thoughts too - if it wasn't Foursquare it'd be whatever other service they chose to use. What's up with the comments on that entry as well? Feels like people are commenting to promote their own stuff; it's horrible.

[edit] Just checked out the Carrissa O'Brien twitter link - and her latest tweet has her location in it...

Not really the point here.

Edit: I'd like to preface this by saying that I've never used Foursquare, or any service like this.

Then what is the point? My take away is probably not what it's supposed to be: that people really don't care about privacy until after they've had it violated and then cry about how their privacy has been taken.

I mean, if we take the article for what it says, the weird person is Shea. She's the odd one. She's the strange one. She's sharing her information with strangers, and when a stranger contacts her, she gets scared. I mean, what did he say that was creepy? Nothing. Oh, sure, the situation was creepy. But it was her doing.

She's broadcasting her where-abouts to the world. Someone picks up on that, contacts her, and asks about hanging out. She get's creeped out. He notices and asks. He then advises her not to do what she did.

I'm not heartless. She was frightened. Fine. And the resulting comments seemed excessively harsh. But really, if you're communicating information about yourself to the public, expect communication to actually occur.