I had to laugh to myself when I read about the newly launched service from CBS that lets you check-in when you are watching your favourite show, or other media on TV. Just another reminder of this new fad-based economy of calling a status update by anything other than its name.
Whilst Wired bangs on about the death of the net, of which I also have to laugh, it’s clear if anything we are likely to drown it under the barrage of crap that is being produced by useless apps and the attention obsessed pricks that use them.
Before we know it, Amazon is going to produce an app to check you in to a book, and tell your friends, family, acquaintances, fellow country men, and world citizens which page you are on and how fast you read, just so that you can show off to the entire planet that you read the latest Harry Potter in record time!
Privacy issues aside, for that is an entirely different story, it’s a shame that incumbent services are willing to degrade the experience for their users in the long run in order to permit the growth of an eco-system that other service providers can piggy back on. I suppose it is the best way for them to turn single feature enterprises into global household brands in a matter of months and to turn the business into the goose that laid the golden egg. The only problem with that is that in the end, the goose is slain. But who cares right? They made it rich!
Twitter is being overloaded with the same stuff being circulated day in day out, and Facebook is being over-run with the same check-ins being touted on Twitter, FriendFeed and everywhere else. Of course you can always block them, but why? Time to start culling the idiots who use them I suppose.
All I can say is … “I see carnage on the horizon.”
Web-head & art collector, living in East London and huffing on the fumes of the planet since '78. Here are my thoughts.
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