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Tell HN: The problem with BangWithFriends - it's not anonymous

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Re: Tell HN: The problem with BangWithFriends - it's not anonymous

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Post by pawelwentpawel »

colkassad wrote: post #5

Ask HN: What is BangWithFriends? Edit: a Facebook app that where you can click on friends you want to sleep with. If they have the app, they are notified. I would think this would be more cool if both of you are only notified if you both signify that you want to sleep with each other. This could also be toned down to just signify romantic interest to get more engagement.

It's a new service that has a mission to connect people, increase natural population growth and make the world more open place.

Re: Tell HN: The problem with BangWithFriends - it's not anonymous

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Post by colkassad »

guruz wrote: post #7

I don't see the problem here. You can't find out who wants to bang who, right? You only can find out that people want to bang. Which is true since the big bang 13.8 billion years ago. (well, humans evolved later, i know)

I don't see a problem if you are single and don't care what potential employers think. And sure, if you aren't single then you shouldn't have the app installed in the first place (preempting this argument). But it still makes Facebook more of a landmine for less scrupulous users and they do make up a significant part of the population.

Re: Tell HN: The problem with BangWithFriends - it's not anonymous

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Post by nischalshetty »

This app is interesting however, users are signing up for this with the idea that no one among their friends get to know about it. Unfortunately, facebook enthusiastically shows everyone using various apps.

Not sure if facebook has a privacy setting to prevent others from knowing the apps I use but if they do then the developers of this app should inform this to their users.

If facebook does not have a way for me to hide from my friends the apps I use then IMO, facebook should have this option.

Re: Tell HN: The problem with BangWithFriends - it's not anonymous

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Post by DanBC »

colkassad wrote: post #12
guruz wrote: post #7

I don't see the problem here. You can't find out who wants to bang who, right? You only can find out that people want to bang. Which is true since the big bang 13.8 billion years ago. (well, humans evolved later, i know)

I don't see a problem if you are single and don't care what potential employers think. And sure, if you aren't single then you shouldn't have the app installed in the first place (preempting this argument). But it still makes Facebook more of a landmine for less scrupulous users and they do make up a significant part of the population.

> I don't see a problem if you [...] don't care what potential employers think

Wait, what? My employer cares that I have sex?

Re: Tell HN: The problem with BangWithFriends - it's not anonymous

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Post by jessaustin »

davidu wrote: post #6

That's not the real problem with BangWithFriends. That's just a symptom or side-effect of the real problem. As the idiom goes, if you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.

True, but doesn't this apply to Facebook in general? The graph search functionality wasn't created by BwF. It's been clear since the beginning of Facebook that they are eager to reshare any info you share with them.

Re: Tell HN: The problem with BangWithFriends - it's not anonymous

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Post by bobsy »

colkassad wrote: post #12
guruz wrote: post #7

I don't see the problem here. You can't find out who wants to bang who, right? You only can find out that people want to bang. Which is true since the big bang 13.8 billion years ago. (well, humans evolved later, i know)

I don't see a problem if you are single and don't care what potential employers think. And sure, if you aren't single then you shouldn't have the app installed in the first place (preempting this argument). But it still makes Facebook more of a landmine for less scrupulous users and they do make up a significant part of the population.

Does the Graph API allow you to find all app's being used by a specific person?

This topic keeps coming up. If you can see all app's installed by someone then you might have the point.

If you can't then an employer would need to search for this specific app and find your account. I guess it is possible that some employers may have a blacklist of hundreds of app's but I would have thought it would be more trouble to maintain compared to the value of having it. Especially considering how tomorrow I could launch "BangWithBuddies" and this app would need to be found, flagged as not appropriate for employees and added to a search list.

If an employer is going to this much trouble to scan for what they believe is moral correctness then they probably aren't worth working for.

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