People Don't Really Do This, Do They?

Yeah, I know, they really do. I was meandering about in Yelp and clicked on find friends. Yelp wants full access to my Gmail account, with which they would do ... something.

It's not clear if they would tell me which of my contacts have yelp accounts, or send them e-mail, or what. They are clear that they do not store my Gmail password, but say nothing else about what they do. And since many online providers have been penetrated, and since many online providers mislead users about how they respect their users' privacy (see Google's recent subversion of Safari security settings for a recent example, or Facebook's historic lack of regard for their users), it's foolish to give one service complete access to another service.

So with my Google password comes access to Gmail, Blogger, Picasa, Docs, etc. Nope, not giving that out to another service, and especially not one that doesn't explain it's intended use for said password.

Yelp Mute on Full Sail University

Full Sail University is a non-accredited degree mill that has good ratings at yelp.com. A friend asked about them so I looked them up. I noticed that yelp had reviews, and was surprised at how positive they were. However, it turns out that most of the reviews were quite negative, as one would expect for a school that exists largely to separate students from their money. However, yelp had filtered most of the negative reviews. Most disturbing.

Note: Full Sail might take issue with the non-accredited statement at the opening, but they're not accredited by a regional accrediting body and so their credits will not transfer to a real college or university. For all practical purposes, they are unaccredited.