怎样在网上追踪你的朋友 How to Stalk Your Friends Online
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Remember Google Latitude? Launched less than four years ago, it was one of the web giant’s first forays into location-sharing with friends. Even though Google Latitude was completely opt-in with strict privacy settings, I remember the general discomfort the product elicited. Privacy International called the location-sharing app “a gift to stalkers, prying employers, jealous partners, and obsessive friends.” The New York Times seemed skeptical that location sharing would even catch on.
Oh, how times have changed.
Before Facebook came around, it seemed weird to use your real name on the internet. Less than a decade later, there’s no limit to the number of ways you can share every personal detail of your life online.
As technology has evolved to help us keep tabs on our friends, cultural norms have evolved to give us more permission to do so. Where it once seemed creepy to look through a friend’s photo albums or Google her name, now we can do that from our phones while we wait in line at Starbucks. In fact, “stalking” your friends online has become so commonplace that there’s a new wave of tools popping up to help you do it better.
Glympse
If you’ve ever fumbled with your phone while texting friends that you’re running late, you will love Glympse, a short-term location-sharing app.
When you send someone a “Glympse” of your location, you select a time frame (up to four hours) during which she can track your location on a map.
I use Glympse all the time and even my friends who think it’s a little eerie still have to admit that it’s extremely useful. Glympse is great for letting your friends know you’re on your way or stuck in traffic, and it’s perfect if you’re picking someone up and want her to come out to the curb right as you pull up. I also love it for concerts and other events where you’re prone to getting separated from the herd.
My favorite feature? Along with location, Glympse also displays speed, so you can give your friend a hard time about her pedal-to-the-metal driving when she arrives.
Find My Friends
If you’re looking for a more permanent way to check up on your pals’ location, ask them to download the Find My Friends app. The iOS 6 version of the app has group options for keeping up with friends who’ve moved away and location-based alerts to let you know when your kids arrive at school.
Think using technology to track a significant other might be taboo? Not at all. My friends in a long-distance relationship use the app to share the boring but intimate details of their day-to-day. (Yes, she picked up her dry cleaning. No, he didn’t go to the gym.) It’s a great way for them to keep up with each other’s lives even though they’re separated by many miles.
Newsle
Want to be able to give your friends props when they get a big promotion or write a cool article? Definitely check out Newsle, my favorite new site for keeping tabs on my friends in the news. If you ever felt weird about having a Google Alert on someone’s name (What? I’ve never done that!), Newsle makes your stalker-ish ways totally kosher.
It works like a news aggregator for your friends, crawling the internet looking for mentions of them in publicly-available news articles. All of the relevant articles are grouped neatly onto a profile so you can see what your friends are up to. It’s a great source for “news about your people.” Everyone is also given a Newsle Rank, a rough measurement of how prominent they are in the news. The most famous newsmaker on Newsle? President Obama, of course.
“Get Notifications” on Facebook
You know those people whose Facebook profiles you check incessantly to see if they’ve posted a new photo or updated their status? Oh sure, you can pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about, but I know you’ll be secretly thrilled to learn about the new feature Facebook built to make that process much easier.
Facebook’s new “Get Notifications” feature puts updates from specified friends directly into your Notifications feed (where you’re already looking for updates on who liked your photos and comments on your posts).
To add a friend to your notifications list, visit her profile and click the “Friends” box beneath her cover photo. From there, you’ll see lots of features to control the settings on your friendship, including “Get Notifications” at the top.
Okay, I’ll admit, I added my mom to make sure I never miss anything she posts.
These new tools are just a few of the many that are helping to turn the paradigm of personal information sharing on its head. Excessively keeping tabs on each other used to drive people apart, but new opt-in technologies can actually bring them closer together. No need to hide anymore. Want to not-so-creepily stalk your friends? There’s an app for that.
过去，在网上搜索某人似乎是很变态的。而现在，在网上“追踪”你的朋友已经司空见惯了，以至于涌现了一堆这样的工具来帮你追踪得更好。
还记得“谷歌纵横”（Google Latitude——译者注）吗？它发行于至少四年前，是网络巨头对好友位置共享服务领域的第一次入侵。尽管谷歌纵横完全可以选择严格的隐私设定，我还是记得这款产品所引起的普遍的不舒适感。国际隐私组织（Privacy International——译者注）称位置共享应用是“给跟踪狂、爱窥探的老板、爱妒忌的搭档和爱花痴的朋友的礼物”。《纽约时报》似乎也曾怀疑位置共享服务根本流行不起来。
呵，时代不同了。
在Facebook到来之前，在网络上使用你的真名似乎是很怪异的。不到十年之后，你可以用各种方式在网上分享你生活中的任何个人细节，完全不受限制。
一方面，科技在帮助我们密切关注我们的朋友，另一方面，文化规范对这类行为也愈加宽容。过去，浏览一个朋友的相册或者Google她的名字，似乎是很变态的，现在我们在星巴克排队的时候就可以用手机这样做了。事实上，在网上“追踪”你的朋友已经司空见惯了，以至于涌现了一堆这样的工具来帮你追踪得更好。
Glympse（我在这里）
如果你曾经笨手笨脚地抓着你的手机给你的朋友发短信说你迟到了，你会爱上Glympse。它是一个短期位置共享应用。
当你发送给某人一个“Glympse”位置信息时，你同时选择一个她能在地图上追踪到你的时间上限（多达4小时）。
我一直用Glympse，甚至那些认为这个玩意儿有点可怕的朋友也不得不承认，它非常有用。要让你的朋友知道你是在赶来的路上还是被堵在了路上，Glympse很棒。要接某个人并且想让她在你停车的时候刚好走到马路边，Glympse很完美。我也喜欢在赶音乐会或者其他活动的时候用它，因为此时我倾向于避开人群。
我最喜欢的特点？除了定位，Glympse同样可以显示速度。所以在你的朋友到来时，你可以就她屁滚尿流地飙车一事让她难堪一下啦。
Find My Friends
如果你想寻找一个更持久的工具用来检查你的伴侣的位置，让他们下载Find My Friends应用吧。这个应用的iOS6版本有一个组选项，可以让你跟上已经搬走的朋友的脚步；也有基于位置的提示，可以让你知道你的孩子什么时候到学校。
如果你认为用科技来跟踪重要的另一半可能是某种禁忌，其实完全不会。我那些异地恋的朋友们，用这个应用来分享日复一日的生活中无聊却亲密的细节。（是，她去拿她干洗的衣服。不，他没去健身房。）这是他们了解各自生活的好方法，尽管他们相隔千里。
Newsle
想在你的朋友高升或者写了一篇很酷的文章时给他们支持？当然要去Newsle。Newsle是我最喜欢的新网站，可以密切关注我的朋友们的消息。如果你曾经用谷歌快讯（GoogleAlert——译者注）跟踪某人的名字（啥？我可从没这么做过！），并且对此感到怪异的话，Newsle能让你的跟踪行径变得很纯洁。
它的工作类似于你朋友消息的整合器——在网络上爬行，寻找公开可用的消息文章中哪里提到了他们。所有相关的文章都在简洁分组后放到一个简报里，这样你就能看到你的朋友们在干吗。它是“news about your people”的很好的来源。每个人都被赋予一个Newsles等级，这是对他们在新闻中的杰出程度的一个严苛的度量。Newsle上最著名的消息制造者是谁呢？当然是总统奥巴马。
Facebook上的“获取通知(Get Notifications——译者注)”
你知道有些人呢，你总是不断地查看他们的Facebook信息，看他们是否发了一张新照片或者更新了状态。哦当然，你可以假装你不知道我在讲什么，但是我知道你暗地里很激动地在学习呢。Facebook开发的新功能能让整个过程简单得多的。
Facebook“获取通知”的新功能，能把特定朋友的更新，直接推送到你的通知里（就是你已经用来查看过谁喜欢了你的照片和评论了你的更新的地方）。
要在你的通知名单上添加一个好友，你只需要访问她的信息并在她的封面照下的“Friends”框上点击一下就好了。从那里你可以看到很多可以设置的好友选项，包括在最上面的“获取通知”。
好吧，我承认，我加了我妈，保证我永远不会错过她发布的任何东西。
这些新工具，只是众多工具中的几种，它们帮助我们完全改变了个人信息分享的模式。过分地关注彼此曾经使人们远离，但是新的可选型技术能让他们真正紧密地联系起来。你不需要再藏着掖着了。想要“不那么变态”地追踪你的朋友吗？有专门的应用哦。
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