New Site Exposes Your Secrets To Everyone, Without Your Knowledge


Bangalore: Do you hate your boss? Did you take drugs or are you in serious hung over? Better keep these secrets into yourself rather than posting it on your Facebook wall because if you post it, the whole world will know about it- That is what the site “We Know What You’re Doing” exactly does.

It takes all your publically available information from Facebook and post it with your picture and name attached. The information can be your phone number, your status updates or anything.

The website was created by 18-year-old Callum Haywood who lives in Nottingham, England. He used Facebook’s Graph API, as well as publicly available Foursquare check-ins, to automatically generate streams of foolish, rage, and over-sharing publicly available Facebook posts. These posts are categorized into four columns: Who wants to get fired? (people complain about their job and bosses); Who’s hung over?; Who’s taking drugs?; and Who’s got a new phone number? The interesting thing is there is no anonymity to the posts. Every post includes the user’s profile picture, their first name and initial.

The intension behind creation of the website? Well, Haywood wants people to define their privacy settings. A good advice from an 18 year old. “Make sure Control Your Default Privacy is not set to ‘Public. Users have to choose the “Custom” privacy settings, “and go through each option to choose who can see what,” says Haywood. “The problem is not with Facebook themselves, when used correctly, their privacy controls are very good. The problem is… people simply don’t understand the risks of sharing everything.”

Haywood’s inspiration to build the website came from a video entitled “I Know What You Did Five Minutes Ago.” According to him the website is getting good response with more than 100,000 unique visitors entering the site in the 27 hours since its launch.

So better login to your Facebook account and check your privacy settings or visit We Know What You’re Doing, to know whether the world already saw your posts.