New Yorkers Are Posting Creepy Cell Phone Pics of Hot Guys on the Subway Online [Privacy]

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Facebook's Potentially Creepy 'Subscriber' Feature Isn't Actually Creepy [Facebook]

Facebook, in a rare coup, has rolled out a new sharing feature without somehow completely botching its privacy implications and freaking everyone out. It sounds scary—people you aren't friends with can read your updates—but it's opt-in! Thanks, Mark.

The Subscribe Button is meant to let you follow (HELLO, TWITTER!) "interesting" people you aren't friends with, like Mark Zuckerberg and other venerable public figures. You can also set your account to be followed, making public status updates of your choosing.

Basically, if you don't care about this, you don't have to do anything, and it's as if it doesn't exist. Which is how everything on Facebook should be. I'm hoping Facebook's learned from its past mistakes that not everyone wants to gyrate and writhe in Zuckerberg's Roman orgy of life sharing.

But isn't this entire thing what Facebook Pages are for? Why would Beyoncé set her account as followable when she has a fan page for that? Why would any remotely famous person not do the same thing? Who would want strangers reading what they say, if not on Twitter? Do you? [Facebook]

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7 Tools for Being Really, Really Creepy [Toolkit]

Summer's dead, which means it's time to focus on work and study. Which means you're going to be surrounded by friends. And strangers. And strangers who might someday be friends. Oh, but what if they won't? Let's creep 'em out.

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Irene Emergency Radio Tracker Site Set to Ambient Music Is Helpful, Creepy [Hurricane Irene]

Emergency radio during a hurricane is undeniably fascinating (and potentially life-saving). But you need to know where to listen. You Are Listening To tracks emergency radio for you, combining it with ambient music for a mesmerizing, if creepy, experience.

You Are Listening To combines electronic music from SoundCloud with emergency radio channels from Radio Reference. Usually, it just has channels for cities (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Montreal). Yet today site operator Eric Eberhardt launched a channel for Irene that tracks an Irene-specific repeater on Radio Reference.

If you're trying to follow the storm, and are having a hard time making sense of online scanning tools, it makes a good (if extremely unnerving) way to listen in.

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