I’ve been Beacon’d!

Despite all the hubbub surrounding Beacon, including several articles on this site, I did not until today really get what people were talking about. I mean, okay, I thought, if you buy something through Facebook then they’re going to notify your friends, and that sucks, but come on. Quit shopping through Facebook and you’re fine.

In fact — and I realize I’m the last one on the train and you all understood this already — you don’t actually have to go through Facebook to get Beacon’d. I, for example, just bought a Christmas present through Shop.com, and got the little pop-up message a few moments later telling me it was about to notify everyone on my Facebook profile about my purchase.

Luckily, I’ve read the articles and knew to click on “no thanks” immediately. Still, it was pretty darn irritating. Not to mention creepy to be nowhere near Facebook and suddenly have something threatening to interact with my Facebook profile.

Anyway, I know this is much talked-of, but I thought there might be a few clueless folk out there like I was who didn’t really understand this could happen on a non-Facebook site. Consider yourselves warned.

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