New Kid in the neighborhood called Flink12

Watch out Facebook, Flink12 is in town!!!

 

Are you a Facebook user have you heard of Flink12? I use Facebook daily for my staying in touch with friends and to market my businesses. Facebook reaches out across the globe to over 600 million possible clients a day.

Did you know that there is a new kid on the block called Flink 12? Facebook was designed for people to stay in touch with friends and family and sharing what is going on in your family’s life and to stay in touch with family across the seas. But in recent days there has been trouble in the Facebook arena called Privacy issues. We've all read about the various issues with privacy that concern Facebook. The problem lies that your personal information, your list of friends and their information is sent app-makers to send out advertisements and also to gather data on you. The problem may bother the tens of millions of regular players of FarmVille and Mafia Wars, to name two popular games that figure in the problem.

The practice isn't new. Visit a website, ask a question or order a product and you can expect spam and ads that reflect your tastes and interests. With Facebook, there's a degree shift: a website that promises privacy and personal choice isn't following through. App-makers are slipping under this pledge and then sharing the results.

Flink 12 gets around this by setting up small, individual networks of friends and family, with each being self contained. In other words your updates are only ever seen by the people in your own network.
As you'd expect, the service is fully integrated with mobile apps and the whole look and feel is very much Web 2.0.







Flink uses the phrase "Udderly private" to describe their network, and now would be a good to explain the name. A "Flink" is a collective name for a group of 12 cows, and no, I didn't know that either! So a Flink network will consist of just 12 people.

The service cleverly separates your updates into categories like mood, health, activity and events, so other people in your network can instantly get an update on any of those areas.

We shall see down the road it Flink12 can keep the privacy of its users secure. With today’s tech geeks and super genius computer code writers with too much time on their hands I am sure that there will be some issue down the road. One or several of today’s intelligent computer savvy young adults will come up with a way to break the privacy issue and figure out a way to produce spam and create spyware to market to the friends and families of Flink12 users.We shall see.

But today run over to Flink12 and check out their site.