Connect is a new multi-platform app that was released with great fan faire at Jason Calacanis’ Launch Festival in San Francisco last week.

The app, available in a web based format as well as a mobile app, allows people to find out the location of any of their friends based off their social check ins across multiple social networks. Sound like it’s been done before? Yes, but not as thoroughly as connect does.

Connect notifies the user when anyone they are following on their app moves about and checks in somewhere else. The best (or the worst) part for some is the fact that once someone shares their location with one of several social networks, they will never know when someone using Connect is following them.

The only way to avoid it is to obviously disable your location based services.

I’m not a big fan of location sharing, my friends typically know where I am but other than that I try to maintain some semblance of order and privacy. The one time that I actually use FourSquare is at sxsw, which just happens to start next week. Usually I just remove Foursquare from my phone in the days between SXSW festivals. Sometimes I use it at CES as well. Other than that, I’m not a location guy.

As for others though, they like to share their location for everything, which makes Connect a great app for that stalker ex boyfriend or girlfriend, or that weird dude from Chemistry class that keeps following you. You’re fair game if you’re sharing your location.

But in a review from Yahoo’s Alyssa Bereznak, she points out that Connect has even more features that are either really cool, or really crazy, depending on your view of stalking in general.

Connect has a social graph of sorts that pulls data form other social networks and can tell you if the person you are “connect-ing” with is in a relationship, what their job status is, where they work, interests, gender, name, education and of course location.

Using this feature Bereznak was able to find all the single men in her area and then even drill down and find her colleague Jason Gilbert, but not as a colleague at Yahoo, as a single man who graduated from Princeton.

Looking to find a college graduate that’s single just use Connect and then conveniently plant yourself wherever it is they are.

Of course being linked to social profiles will lead the Connect user to all the info they’ll need to strike up significant conversation and have all the interest for the target, I mean Connections questions. Connect would virtually allow you to set up a game of Catfish, on the go.

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