“And I have no privacy, whoa-oh-oh.” Well, yes, this is true for some of you. Callum Haywood’s experiment called weknowwhatyouredoing.com makes that abundantly clear. Know who can see when you tell your Facebook buddies that you hate your boss, are hungover, smoked some cheeba, or got a new phone number? Everyone! All the time! Everywhere!
The very simple tool Callum has devised queries Facebook’s Graph API and outputs the results, which is information that anyone can see if you’ve made it available and they’re looking. Wanna know who’s saying what in their Facebook statuses, on Foursquare, or where people and their friends “check in?” This site can tell you. As long as your privacy settings are set to “public” everything you say about how “drizzunk” you are or how much sweet, sweet weed you’ve smoked, well, yeah, that’s all viewable. Now, you may not think that’s a big deal, but when you look at it here in Callum’s “wall of shame” so to speak, you get the point. The thinking seems to be if you wouldn’t post this info on the bathroom wall at your job, why are you making it public on Facebook?
The reality is Facebook has transcended some small, quirky social networking site that just you and your buddies know about and use. Everyone is now on Facebook. Yes, everyone! Your mom, your boss, your high school girlfriend, that dude Todd in accounting you hate, everyone, everyone. It’s gone mainstream. It’s no longer insidery. Mark Zuckerberg isn’t just some dweeby guy who found a way to make a huge-o-billion dollars off your every thought. He’s the man who now has your mom wanting to “Friend You” and “Like” the Olive Garden. Yeah. That’s happening. So it would make sense that if you don’t want certain people to know how stoned or wasted you were when you came to work and slept in a bathroom stall for forty minutes, maybe you shouldn’t post, “Durr, I’m so faded. I slept in the bathroom stall at the Xerox on Pine Street where I work for forty minutes. HA! I’m awesome like a champ.” Or minimally up your privacy settings to “custom.”
Not every shameless Facebook category is mentioned on Callum’s site. We see a complete lack of “wearing booty shorts and shouldn’t” or “making the duck face and should stop it” but the main troublemakers are there. And let’s talk about the “Who’s Hungover” category on the site. Sheesh. Dudes. It’s the longest one of them all. Is everybody okay? Did we miss some sort of big concert? Or is everyone just hungover on a Tuesday and telling the world about it like it isn’t fooking Tuesday? This seems like the first of many, many questions you’ll possibly have to answer a bit later after “Did I drunk text you?” amid other sundry things that end with “Really, I did?” See? These are the things you should probably think about before posting on Facebook or anywhere else while drunk or hungover, really. Untz.
Callum seems like a good guy, if not a little, teensy, weensy bit preachy. But we all get his point, and really, he’s here to help. Well, help show you how exposed you really are. Never fear, though, there’s a way to get off his site if you end up there. He says, “If you see any posts on here that are yours and you want them remov[ed], delete them from Facebook first, then they will stop appearing here (may take up to an hour), or contact me to block any posts by you from appearing.” The first thing, if you didn’t catch it, was DELETE them from Facebook. Got it? Fantabulous.
He’s offering a service really. One that basically says, “Hey, Nimrod. We can all see you. Tuck in your addictions. They’re hanging out all over the place.”
