@diehausfrau: Shea Sylvia's own website describes her as an "interactive marketing professional who specializes in social media strategy and execution." Professionals don't get to use the "I don't know how social media works" excuse. You're insulting her with that defense.

@sheasylvia: I didn't call you a liar. I called you wrong.

@eternalcthulhu: Yeah, he's a liar. He wasn't "stalking" anybody with Foursquare. Stalking requires the ability to follow someone around. He looked up somebody who was nearby (using the "Who's Here" display that @aririn mentioned to find a name, then got all the rest of the info from the Twitter and Facebook links in…

@LaFabuliste: I'm a Foursquare user who is getting tired of watching the company panic and remove features every time a newspaper announces Foursquare is a tool for stalkers. (Foursquare is crippling the service by redesigning it to placate people who don't use Foursquare.) The whiners are breaking my Internet,…

@AraRichards: If they come to my house, they didn't get the information from Foursquare. They got it from the phone book.

@Leandri: Yeah, if I ever quit Foursquare, it'll be because of that crap, not because I'm afraid of strangers.

@AraRichards: I don't friend total strangers, I don't put my home or workplace on Foursquare, and I don't twitter anything detailed about my job. I know what my happy median between safety and exposure is, and I'm taking the responsiblity for maintaining that median.

@aririn: You're suggesting she online-stalked by somebody who was in the same restaurant as her? If that's the case, Shea Sylvia's got a whole different problem than Foursquare. She's got a "creepy guy in the restaurant who might follow her home" problem. She needs to stop worrying about Foursquare and look for a new…

@CJ Disaffected: Not so much. If a woman has a real stalker (as opposed to a weirdo internet harasser), it's likely that he's local and knows her area well enough to know what "Tom's Pub" she's tweeting about, even without the handy map.

@blehbleh13: No, I'm saying people who announce their whereabouts on Twitter show their own locations. The Guardian has to blame Foursquare because too many people use Twitter to fall for scare stories about Twitter.

@AraRichards: Go look at my Foursquare profile and tell me how you would stalk me with it. And keep in mind, I've got all of my privacy settings there set to the lowest setting. Most Foursquare profiles don't even display the users' last names.

@CJ Disaffected: Bullshit distinction. People announce where they are all the time on Twitter, without Foursquare, and were doing so before Foursquare. Foursquare did not create this issues, it's just an easy target.

@megmo: She was sending her checkins to Twitter. She's probably blaming Foursquare for a Twitter-stalker.

FOURSQUARE DOESN'T SHOW YOUR LOCATION TO STRANGERS.

Quote No. 6 made me feel bad for the man who helps with her computers. Can you imagine trying to explain computers to Kelly Bensimon? He probably spends half his time just trying to convince that the computer isn't involved in some sort of conspiracy against her.

I stash cash in different spots like this, but sometimes forget it's there. I found over $400 in a side pocket of my laptop bag the other day, and I'm not sure how long it's been there!

@Donovanesque: I think it's easier for woman to "just not drink" than it is for men. I'm a light drinker, and if I go out too often without imbibing, acquaintances will start asking (in sympathetic tones) "Mike, why don't you drink?"

I'd sum up America's Facebook situation with an analogy: Most of us like television, but hate the cable company.

@Curves: I never forgot cash, but I often used to run out of the $1 bills that I need for tips, vending machines, and toll booths. Now, one of my pre-trip rituals is stopping by my neighborhood bank to withdraw $50 in singles.

@Bob Jones: Good God! Where are you going that you have to take that many cables with you?