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Too Much Sharing 0

You think they’re your “friends” on “social” media until you find out that they aren’t.

A 22-year-old man is accused of using Snapchat’s location-sharing feature to try to kidnap a woman and another person on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, according to an indictment filed in federal court, WSOC reported.

The good news is that you can turn that “feature” off.

Much more at the link.

Aside:

I keep “location services” turned off on my cell phone unless I have a positive need for them, which is almost never, because I know how to read a map. Remember maps?

Big Tech doesn’t need to know when I take the cats to the vet.

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