So, I use this site called INK361 to view all my Instagram photos on my laptop (I don’t like web.stagram for whatever reason). It kind of sucks, and lags, and has weird refresh bugs, but whatever. They just recently updated everything and one of the features they pushed out was their geotagging.

If you enable certain settings on your iPhone, your pictures will be autotagged with a location. When you upload to Instagram, it asks if you want to tag your location, and if you don’t, all photos are automatically tagged with a general city the photo was taken in, not a specific address. Now, INK361 doesn’t do this. It has always pulls in your location, regardless of whether or not you add it. I thought this was kind of cool at first, mostly because the map was so small and you couldn’t expand on it. But with the update, you can. You can see exactly where someone takes a photo, even if you don’t want them to. And I mean, EXACTLY. So much so that you can tell where someone lives, if you really wanted to. Basically giving you everything you need to be a stalker without actually giving you a hard address.

It’s really creepy. I don’t like it. I don’t tag my location all the time for a reason. I don’t need some random site pushing it out when I don’t want them to. I mean, that’s the whole point of it being optional, right? I also don’t know how to turn this off, or if it’s even possible (on this site, not my phone). 

Damn iPhone location settings. Damn you.