- Why is the information you share 'right' and the information Foursquare users share 'wrong', especially given you do share location info sometimes?
I don't care who's right or wrong, I'm just planning to have fun calling Foursquare users until they stop posting their locations. I don't care if people call me when I check in someplace. In fact, that's happened to me many times in the past, long before Foursquare existed. Whatever happens is my own fault for checking in. If I don't want someone calling me, I won't check in. Our calls are hurting nobody and most of the people we've called have been amused by it.
- Is verbally abusing someone really the best you can do if you have such an important message?
Nope, I can do much better. I can create a podcast about it, a web page featuring the funnier phone calls, a message board encouraging other people to do the same thing as me, and I can get bloggers to talk about it. I'm doing way better than verbal abuse. Thanks for noticing!
- Why are you posting comments supporting your actions under assumed names, especially ones so thinly disguised?
What I posted on your site was this: "pleaserobme is just pulling a search string from twitter. If you go to search.twitter.com and type in 4sq.com, you'll get the exact same results. That website isn't the problem. The problem is people who post their location nonstop to the public all day."
Just a simple comment, giving my opinion that pleaserobme is nothing more than a jab at people who post their location and is in no way a threat to anyone, anywhere. I wasn't supporting my actions at all. I was just disagreeing with your stance on pleaserobme.com. I post my opinions on lots of websites, all day, while I'm supposed to be working. And I almost always use a name other than my own. Why? Because it's the internet and I can be anonymous if I want to. I post stuff on tech sites all day using weird, random names. I'm sure not doing it to hide from anyone though. If I seriously wanted to hide myself from you, I wouldn't have used the email address dino at notla.com. Using notla.com is a dead giveaway that I'm Brad Carter.
The difference between you and all these other sites that I post on is that they don't freak out when I post my opinion, researching my name and email address, spouting off personal information about me and pretending that they know where I work. I'm pretty sure you're the first blogger that's ever done this to me. Congrats on being a complete spaz.
You need to learn to accept that some people just don't share your opinion. Instead of freaking out at me in that post you could have just responded to the valid points that I brought up. Who knows, maybe you could even convince me that you're right and I'm wrong. But instead of doing that you decided to rant about how you have pictures of my kids.
