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TakeThisLollipop - really clever/creepy use of the Facebook API

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Re: TakeThisLollipop - really clever/creepy use of the Facebook API

#71
I saw a Second City improve last winter, and one of the better sketches exploited Facebook similarly, albeit in a more lighthearted and humorous way.

Prior to the performance they would find an audience member's Facebook page using their credit card or mailing address (presumably), and write a sketch based on the details extracted from his or her page.

They incorporated the lucky patron's inevitable reaction into the sketch under the pretense of reprimanding him for disrupting the show. After letting him squirm a bit under the spotlight, the punchline was projecting his Facebook page on the screen across the stage.

Re: TakeThisLollipop - really clever/creepy use of the Facebook API

#72

That was amazing. You know its a joke.. but the production value is so high your can't help but be really creeped out by it. I have removed every app which I have signed up to from accessing my Facebook account. I have also bolted my front door. shivers

I know, it's effing creepy.

I wasn't planning on sleeping tonight anyway!

Re: TakeThisLollipop - really clever/creepy use of the Facebook API

#73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

he knocks on your door

Yeah, good luck to him finding "X5, Cardiff". There isn't an "X5" postcode here, nor is it anywhere near where I was last time I did a location based update. The inaccurate google map thing is what made me lul.

Yeap, they should limit themselves to a higher zoom level. I'm guessing they used geoip, and it barely close.

Re: TakeThisLollipop - really clever/creepy use of the Facebook API

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post #29

I gave the guy all those details and pics while authorizing the app! There's no way too see those things without being my friend.

This. It's very well done and all, but what is the point? That if you explicitly allow access to one specific application, that application will have access? Or is the creepy guy supposed to be the app developer?

A better idea (maybe not possible, I dunno) might have been to have different things happen based on your privacy settings. That would actually call people's attention to something they should care about, instead of just fear-mongering to everyone regardless.

Re: TakeThisLollipop - really clever/creepy use of the Facebook API

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post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually no one really cares what your host file looks like.

Your opinion does not equate to everyone's opinion. I'm quite interested in his hosts file (because of blocking like buttons).

This reminds me of a really good bash.org quote: bash.org/?99060
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