The app, which has been , culls publicly available information from social networks and spits out semi-useful data, such as female-to-male ratios at nearby venues. It also, however, makes use of people's publicly visible Facebook profiles and lets users see any information those people have made public, including full names, ages, relationship statuses, and photos.

But how is any of this useful to a local social network stalker? Any more useful, that is, than it is to a regular old non-local social networking stalker.

If anything, the only thing the Girls Around Me app is going to do is make socially awkward nerds even more socially awkward because now they have to navigate a conversation with a girl without something way too creepy, such as her birth date or her "complicated" relationship status.

Someone can pull up the app, find an attractive woman (who overshares on Facebook and uses Foursquare to check-in everywhere) at the coffee shop down the street, and run over there and…then what? Start a conversation about how she went to high school in Montana? Ask her how her new puppy is? Or just sit in a corner and stare at her and think about how she dyed her hair last week? All of these things are a little creepy, but mostly they're just ridiculous.

My IDG colleague Cameron Scott argues that the app shows a "" -- and the culture gap between app developers and real people. In other words, that app developers believe information is there for the taking, and that they can use it to innovate in any way they see fit, while people don't realize how much information they're giving away.