mattmonihan

This just in:

With Beacon, Facebook will install cookies onto users’ computers to track their activities when they visit partner websites such as eBay, Travelocity, and Fandango. When these users bid on an item, book a trip or buy a movie ticket, Facebook will let the user’s friends know in their Facebook news feeds, the stream of friends’ activities that greets users when they log in. From Valleywag

So, facebook is now taking a bold step towards pissing me off. Now, I have to think twice before I buy something stupid online. Will my friends be notified that I bought seasons 1 & 2 of project runway? What will they think? Although, part of me wants to buy a bunch of weird items just to mess with people. Coming soon to a feed near you: “Matt just bought a teddy bear, a gallon of play-doh and a fire extinguisher on eBay.”

I didn’t delete my profile after I was bitten by a vampire, stabbed by a pirate, had food thrown at me, or even after getting bitch slapped by superpoke, but now my need for facebook has come under serious scrutiny. All I want is a glorified roladex so I can keep track of my “friends” whereabouts and “stalk” girls. No frills, no thrills, no bullshit. Just clean, eficient espionage.

But no, it had to come to this. Just when people started liking cookies again, they go and blow it for everyone.