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Friday Fun Link – Blippy & fallin.gs – Oversharing Hits New Lows

If you didn’t hear, Blippy, a site that encouraged users to share details about their credit card purchases in another escalation of the TMI world of social networking, had a wee glitch where a few actual credit card numbers were indexed by Google, not just the details of what was purchased and for how much.  (Who didn’t see that coming?) 

Yet another site taking the concept of over-sharing to new levels is failin.gs which asks (or rather helps you ask) “What is wrong with me?” then lets your friends and others in your social circle give constructive criticism on ways you could improve yourself.

I’m usually pretty quick to join whatever new Web 2.0 fads come along and I actually thought about giving fallin.gs a try just to see what kind of feedback I got.  Then I thought – actually there are probably some things better left for a private performance review at work and/or the detailed performance reviews I sometimes get at home!

[Edit: The NYT has a story about formspring.me, another site that’s similar to failin.gs and which is apparently quite the rage among teeangers right now, precisely because it allows anonymous criticism and attacks.]

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