More cross-platform madness

[jethrien]

So I do SparkPeople--it's an online diet tool that you can track your exercise and calories and such. I've found it pretty helpful when I start getting off track on what I'm eating, as it helps me recalibrate from restaurant portions back to a reasonable amount of food.

Anyway, they just started trying to convince me to log on via Facebook. You want me to log on to a diet website, which includes exactly what I've eaten and exactly how much I've weighed, for years, that I've got a pseudonym for, through Facebook. The site that gleefully broadcasts every possible thing to anyone you've ever met for 30 seconds, and is known for problematic privacy controls.

Umm. No.

(It's not so much that it's that confidential information. If someone wanted to know, I'd tell them. But there's a difference between being ok with the information available if someone really looks and broadcasting it to hundreds of people.)

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[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I suspect that's exactly what we'd get. I suspect what they were aiming for was more like "Jethrien lost two pounds this week!" so all of your friends can "like" it. And if you gain weight, you can be appropriately shamed by everyone you've ever met.