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Weight and bmi are information about you. Sex and other activies are information of your activies. It's simply grouped as it should be.
"To be is to do" - Socrates "To do is to be" - Sartre "Do Be Do Be Do" - Sinatra
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.
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.
So if I choose to have a public profile, accessible to the world (which was clear to me when I signed up), then I choose to make an activity called "sexual activity", it's indexable and publicly visible.
Is it only Americans that see this as a problem? Let me be the first European to redundantly point out that sex is natural and nothing to be ashamed of. So what's the big deal? How many more years will it take the moral (majority?) to get over the way our bodies work.
And if the parent disagrees, I challenge him/her to link to his/her log.
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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.
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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.
To be fair, the only reason this info is public is the person is 'tagging' the activity. By default all tagged links in delicious are public and that makes sense. If you tag an activity like this on fitbit, you should mark it private. I have a fitbit and I can't for the life of me figure out why people would start tagging every activity they do and start and end times... but if they are adding tags, comments, and oth…
wastedbrains' reply told me exactly what I needed to know. Fitbit users are not "unwittingly sharing details of their sex lives", but deliberately marking their exercise sessions with their very personal trainer as games of hide-the-sausage; using a tool that is designed to publicly share information about ones exercise sessions.
I'm aware of this issue and still sometimes run into friction over it. The internet allows us to belong to many more social groupings than in the past and it gets complicated trying to determine what info and how much to share where/with whom...etc.
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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?
"Why is it so bad to have your sex duration published but its okay that your jogging performance visible to the world?" They are completely different. Maybe not to you but if you can't see how it would bother some people then you're not thinking very hard.
They are evidently not completely different to the users of fitbit who are telling the world about it, because otherwise they wouldn't be overtly and deliberately stating (on a website whose purpose is to share activity details with the world) that any particular 2m52s of increased activity was due to squelching.
Please let me know if I've missed some crucial point regarding fitbit usage, because I really can't see how this is "unwitting".