Who Deleted Me App Deleted by Facebook
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| buzzfeed.com |
The Who Deleted Me app – which allows users to see who had
unfriended them – has been removed from Facebook. ‘Who Deleted Me was intended
to be a useful tool to enhance users’ Facebook experience,’ said the app’s
developer, ‘but Facebook did not see it the same way.’
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| buzzfeed.com |
The app is far from being the first of its kind. It
resembles a similar app for Twitter called Who Unfollowed Me, which allows users
to keep track of their unfollowers from the last 30 days. There’s more – for
$9.99 per year, Pro users can see a one year history of unfollowers, while for
an extra $20 Pro Plus users get an unlimited history.
The Facebook app was so popular when it was launched last
Monday that the site’s servers couldn’t handle the traffic and caused crashes. ‘Never
did I expect it would achieve the same level of popularity it did over the last
week, from being mentioned all over the media to being number 1 in the iOS App
Store,’ the developer said.
But the app is being used as an example of how social media
can cause paranoia, low self-esteem, and depression. The type of people who would
want to monitor their friends list are the type who are more likely to be hyper
vigilant to rejection, says New York-based clinical therapist Julie Gurner. The
Who Deleted Me app and others like it encourage users to view social media as a
‘competition’ or a place where they are up against their friends, which can
have negative mental health consequences. A report from Germany linked the
amount of time we spend looking at other people’s Facebook profiles to negative
emotions like loneliness and jealousy.
The trend on social media is to monitor as many things as we
can in our lives. A browser extension called Marauders Map – created by Aran
Khanna, a computer science and mathematics student at Harvard – used the iOS
and Android Facebook Messenger app to show the movement of your friends with a
worrying degree of accuracy. The app manipulates Messenger’s default location-sharing
– which has to be toggled off manually – to send your coordinates to the recipients
with more than five points of decimal precision – that’s within one metre of
your precise location.
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| theguardian.com |
Khanna built the extension to show the potentially intrusive
use of the information you share with the increasing digitalisation of our
lives. Marauders Maps enabled him to obtain a detailed location history of a
complete stranger. ‘The main problem is that every time you open your phone and
send a single message it’s so easy to forget about your location date being
attached to it. But the problem is, over time the information from these
messages adds up,’ Khanna said.
Aaron Waterhouse
Aaron Waterhouse
Aaron is a recent English graduate from Durham University who is now working as a content writer intern. An enthusiastic traveller, he hopes to become a journalist and report from around the world. Follow him @AaronAtSMF
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