Tyson Balcomb quit after a chance encounter on an elevator. He found himself standing next to a woman he had never met — yet through Facebook he knew what her older brother looked like, that she was from a tiny island off the coast of Washington and that she had recently visited the Space Needle in Seattle.
I'm no Facebook appologist, but this sounds pretty dumb. So basically this kid thinks the social network is "unhealthy" because he internet stalked some girl? Are Anderson Windows "unheathly" because you can sit right outside someone's house and watch through them?
Mr. Balcomb needs to stop stalking people if he feels it's not healthy. The goings-ons of second removed friends doesn't just show up in my feed. I would have to actively look into their timelines to figure that stuff out.
As Merlin Mann says, Don't be creepy.
P.S. Yes I just made the guns don't kill people, people kill people argument.
[Via Dan Benjamin at bigweek.co]
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