So perhaps you misread the subject, re: "how you extract location data from Facebook" (GGGP post) when you responded to this thread.

Anyway, here's the answer: No one can. FB does not make that information available regarding any user.

I'm left handed you insensitive clod.

But how does one access that about another person on a social media site like Facebook?

"i want my teachers teaching, not spying"

Teachers are not administrators. The two camps are generally in opposition. In recent years administrators have generally taken more control of schools away from teachers at all levels (i.e., become more manager-employee relationship). Administrators would decide and run a program like this. Likely teachers would be the only voice in schools arguing *against* something like this -- and here's hoping they have some job protection so they don't get fired in response.

Example: Administrators in Holyoke, Massachusetts demand putting up students' names and test scores in a public "data wall" to motivate them. Teacher Agustin Morales, local union president, attends school board hearing and points out this is likely illegal. His observation reports suddenly switch from positive to negative and he's fired soon thereafter. Fairly common story.

http://www.psc-cuny.org/clarion/december-2014/why-teacher-agustin-morales-lost-his-job

Nobody teaches you how to handle 100,000,000 simultaneous user requests. Throwing more and more hardware at it is what you cannot escape when dealing with tens of millions of users a second. At least Google is not a bank, where things really need to be synchronized across accounts and be perfectly transactional. It doesn't matter to Google that there are no transactions. A piece of data presented to a user in the USA may be different than the one presented to a user in Japan, but it isaybe an answer to the same question, but the data did not propagate all the way everywhere yet. Even so, it is quite a challenge to deal with hundreds of millions of users daily and tens or hindreds of millions concurrent user requests a second. They are doing it really well too. I can only imagine the massive problems that need to be solved. It is jarring. Good stuff.

What part of "legally required severance" did you not understand? Mind you, severance is not optional, it is reimbursement for a breech of contract, in this case an employment contract.

So I read that this problem dates back to 1988 (so they say). Reminds me of a two envelope joke. A president steps down due to scandals, gives his replacement 2 envelopes. Tells him to open the first one when there is the first serious problem he cannot handle and the second one in case of another problem.

The replacement starts on the job, eventually there is a serious political problem he cannot solve. He opens the first envelope and it says: blame everything on the previous guy. So he does and the problem goes away. Later there is another problem that cannot be solved, the guy opens the second envelope and in says: prepare 2 envelopes.

I think somebody opened the first envelope.

I think of it as a discount. In not getting a lower price for not participating.