Hey folks, here's a hot tip: If you're going to say offensive, mean things via your Facebook status, you might want to go ahead and make your profile private. That's the thrust of the online game Who Said It?, which recently sprung from the evil genius of Tom Scott.
Scott -- who is also the brains behind the Evil Facebook app, Tweleted and Stupid Fight -- sent this particular game our way this morning with the addendum, "I'm not sure if I've crossed a line with this one or not..." Why such a rumination? Well, probably because the game crosses several lines.
The premise of Who Said It? is simple: You're presented with three pictures and a status update, and then you're instructed to guess who said it.
The catch is that all status updates are real (yoinked from unprotected profiles) and are chosen so as to be contentious -- "those including profanity, hate speech, religious references," etc., according to the site. So basically you're being asking to stereotype Facebookers based on their pictures (line number one).
Social experiments like this are nothing new. The Facebook-inspired OpenBook displays unprotected status updates that probably should be kept under wraps, and geolocation-targeted Please Rob Me showed just how many people leave their whereabouts out in the open. Who Said It? continues in the grand tradition of depicting how flagrantly people flaunt their personal info (line number two).