The location based mobile social network Brightkite, may be facing a bit of a backlash with Twitter users. While the service is nicely gaining ground with Twitter users, there are some that are more than irritated with one of Brightkite’s most popular features: sending location updates to Twitter.

Recently, prolific Twitter user and one of my mentors, Wayne Sutton, posed an interesting question about some user reactions to Brightkite:

http://twitter.com/waynesutton/statuses/810698074

While users responded that they don’t hate Brightkite, thoughts on the service ranged from privacy concerns to Brightkite not being a "real" mobile technology.

I whole heartedly agree with the responses. While Brightkite may be great for other reasons, tweeting your locations to your followers isn’t one of them. There are ways to mislead users and pretend to update from locations that you’re no where near. This is also a great tool for stalking people. However, to counter the latter, Brightkite does offer you the option of only allow "