Removing "Where I've been" from Facebook.

So it would appear that the "Where I've been" app on Facebook has been bought for $3m. I've removed it immediately, and here's why:

When this was an intra-Facebook app I was happy with the idea, it would be seen by my "Friends" - i.e I controlled access (or at least I trusted the self interest of the small outfit that ran it to not screw their user base or they would die).

Now that it is "going corporate", and has had a lump of money paid for it, (apparently I was worth $1.30) the pressure will be on to monetise and get an ROI - which very likely means use of my data outside of the narrow confines I mandated for it - and that means I lose control of my data for no discernable benefit to me - most likely scenario is that it will now to be a source of attempts to appraise me of offers I would be a fool to refuse (ie flog me stuff I don't want), and there is the potential of easily cross-analysing my travel patterns with the other data on my profile and mining that.

Call me paranoid, but they survive

Congrats of course to Craig Ulliott who built it and sold it.

(Incidentally I've also just removed "My Questions" - I was surprised at the naff questions clever friends were asking me, when I realised it was a using a spam system to market itself I killed it.)