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Fitbit users are unwittingly sharing details of their sex lives with the world

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Re: Fitbit users are unwittingly sharing details of their sex lives with the world

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely google can use this as a search signal?

... or integrate it into Google+ recommendations.

Hm. If two people were fitbit users, google could automatically +1 depending on the duration. I predict a new saying: "I'd +1 that".

Re: Fitbit users are unwittingly sharing details of their sex lives with the world

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Since they will probably block this soon and get Google to flush its public cache, here's are some examples (with user tokens redacted):

Google results: https://img.skitch.com/20110703-r79t4swrjt3e2akwh3xdfbcrsg.p...

Part of a profile: https://img.skitch.com/20110703-cwmhwiicewy6hh5xw67ctwrq7m.p...

Re: Fitbit users are unwittingly sharing details of their sex lives with the world

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post #18

Seriously: who cares? If I'd had the exhibitionist inclination to publish my jogging and TV watching habits, I would not mind having the duration of my sexual activity published as well. Who cares? It's not like having sex is something top secret nobody else does. But since I would not want to publish all my questionable efforts to stay in shape, it would probably be a good idea to make the public/private setting a l…

Really, again? When I have an own opinion here that does not follow the mainstream, I just get downvoted without any arguments. Why is it so bad to have your sex duration published but its okay that your jogging performance visible to the world?

Re: Fitbit users are unwittingly sharing details of their sex lives with the world

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post #20
post #5

I think it's crazy that they by default share when you have sex, for how long, and how hard, but that they decided that weight and bmi information should be private.

Weight and bmi are information about you. Sex and other activies are information of your activies. It's simply grouped as it should be.

And that comment right there is why programmers shouldn't design social networks.

Re: Fitbit users are unwittingly sharing details of their sex lives with the world

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Sort of reminds me of Blippy sharing credit card numbers, except that was by accident not design http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/apr/26/blippy-credi...

I think it was the intention of the author to remind you of Blippy, since they specifically mentioned them in the next to last paragraph by linking to an article about them.

Re: Fitbit users are unwittingly sharing details of their sex lives with the world

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Collect dataset of low sexual activity people, connect with Facebook, analyze users Like and Commenting patterns and then build a Facebook dating app that suggests local deals, and activities with other low sexual activity folks.

Or: collect dataset of short sexual duration people, spam with virility supplements.

Instead of the normal find any email address and spam with virility supplements?

Re: Fitbit users are unwittingly sharing details of their sex lives with the world

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post #23
post #18

Seriously: who cares? If I'd had the exhibitionist inclination to publish my jogging and TV watching habits, I would not mind having the duration of my sexual activity published as well. Who cares? It's not like having sex is something top secret nobody else does. But since I would not want to publish all my questionable efforts to stay in shape, it would probably be a good idea to make the public/private setting a l…

Really, again? When I have an own opinion here that does not follow the mainstream, I just get downvoted without any arguments. Why is it so bad to have your sex duration published but its okay that your jogging performance visible to the world?

The question is how the users feel about it. How the users should feel about it is irrelevant.

Re: Fitbit users are unwittingly sharing details of their sex lives with the world

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post #23
post #18

Seriously: who cares? If I'd had the exhibitionist inclination to publish my jogging and TV watching habits, I would not mind having the duration of my sexual activity published as well. Who cares? It's not like having sex is something top secret nobody else does. But since I would not want to publish all my questionable efforts to stay in shape, it would probably be a good idea to make the public/private setting a l…

Really, again? When I have an own opinion here that does not follow the mainstream, I just get downvoted without any arguments. Why is it so bad to have your sex duration published but its okay that your jogging performance visible to the world?

Animals have very strict rules and regulations about the sacred act of rubbing genitals together.

Re: Fitbit users are unwittingly sharing details of their sex lives with the world

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post #15

On a public account on Daytum.com I once came across a chart in which a couple seemed to be logging their sexual positions, including "what what in the butt." Daytum is pretty much anonymous are far as the end user goes, there's no name or "social" information to an account, but it was pretty funny and doubt they knew other people could see that data.

Ripe for data-driven visualization.

http://daytum.com/robynt/categories/191024

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