Location sharing is the hottest Internet privacy topic these days. Generally, my counter-argument to the whole you’ll-get-robbed-if-you-use-foursquare craze is, “If people want to rob you, they’ll do it when they know you go to work…probably every weekday between 9am and 5pm. They aren’t going to track you on foursquare.”
Even still, I’m careful about who I share my location with. At the same time, I’m curious about the social norms forming around friend requests on location-based social networks. Since I’m on the AboutFoursquare podcast, I get a lot of really off-the-wall friend requests. Here are some of the strangest requests I’ve ever gotten.
UPDATE: Since publishing this post, I’ve gotten another strange request from the Ministry of Bacon. I’d put these guys at #2.
