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"It seems these days we are becoming obsessed with continuously telling the world what we are doing, who we are doing it with, and now the hot ticket item seems to be letting everyone know where we are. As our mobile phones are being pressed into service to become an all-in-one computing device more so-called features are being added in them with every passing day. The latest cool feature getting the early adopter attention is Global Positioning Systems (GPS) as social media services are popping up like weeds to take advantage of this newest addition.\nDon\u2019t get me wrong, GPS is great. It save lives if you are lost at sea, helps out when looking for the nearest Starbucks or lets you know where your stolen car is. However, while it might help place that missile in just the right spot.  The idea that we need to broadcast where we are 24 hours a day is not only questionable from a security and safety point of view, it is now another way to further pollute the Web.\nSome folks like MG Siegler from ParisLemon might think this is just the coolest idea that gets him all excited. I fail to see how seeing a constant stream of Brightkite announcements flooding social media services like Twitter and FriendFeed is not incredibly irritating. It\u2019s not like knowing where you are every five or ten minutes is earth shattering news that we all need to know. If anything there are times when this kind of pollution makes me want to just close any window I have open to social media providers who support these location based services.\nThe fact that things like Brightkite can drive me; and many others, to forcibly filter out this irritating self-importance is in my opinion an infringement of my space and time spent with friends. People forever talk about how irritating it is to be forced to listen to people incessantly talking on their cell phones at a level where everyone for blocks around them can hear. Well this idea that people want to know where you are whenever you feel like sharing that information is of the same level.\nI once wrote on my personal blog when this whole lifestreaming thing was gaining speed that there was no need of a government program like Carnivore. The fact is that the government could save all that money and just employ a bunch of folks to monitor all these lifestreams \u2013 we\u2019re willingly giving out all kinds of information nonstop almost 24 hours a day. One has to wonder as we fall over ourselves to join all these services and put our lives on the Web for anyone to read if there is any concern for one\u2019s personal security.\n As much as there is a movement to make the mobile phone more and more of a computing platform, I have to wonder if at the same time we will begin to see more of a pushback against this seemly innocuous mobile lifestreaming. I am getting to the point that like Rick Mahn who just wanted a simple phone, I will run in the opposite direction from a mobile phone salesman when he starts talking about GPS and all the other bells and whistles. I know then I won\u2019t be hoping that they start padding all the lampposts so we don\u2019t hurt ourselves as we tell the world where we are and that we just smacked into some object while Twittering how cool we are."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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