Stalking Your Friends With Facebook Messenger

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I guess it was only a matter of time before Chrome extensions like this started popping up.

As you may know, when you send a message from the Messenger app there is an option to send your location with it. What I realized was that almost every other message in my chats had a location attached to it, so I decided to have some fun with this data. I wrote a Chrome extension for the Facebook Messenger page that scrapes all this location data and plots it on a map. You can get this extension here and play around with it on your message data.
 
huh. facebook monitoring and logging all kinds of personal information. well, that's a new one.
 
Funny how people keep that checked. It's primary purpose is to cross reference location with what's at that location. Is it a gym? Target gym/health ads! Rinse, repeat.
 
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