Facebook Places was announced yesterday by the world’s biggest time-wasting, life-sucking website. It’s nothing new, following in the footsteps of FourSquare and other start-ups offering us the means to tell everyone in the world where we are, easily and dangerously, right down to the table we’re eating our lunch at. I’ve dabbled with FourSquare for several weeks now, and just can’t buy into it the way I did, for a time, with Twitter and Facebook. My enthusiasm for all these social networking tools has cooled somewhat of late, thanks to my becoming increasingly aware of just how much we’re all [...]






