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New iOS Feature Coming: 'Find My Friends'
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Remember a time before cell phones and how you made plans to meet a friend at a particular location and time and somehow you were able to do without relying on ten phone calls (where are you?, you said to call you when I got to main street now you are not answering your phone, OMG). Let's add a track device that will eliminate that desperate call and replaces it with (just track me when I get downtown and we can hook up). All of this "convenience" seems like like a lot more work and less efficient than, "meet you at the corner of main and high street 12 o'clock."
Jealous boyfriends and girlfriends you just got a new tool to broaden your suspicions that your mate "may" be cheating. Have fun.
Remember a time before cell phones and how you made plans to meet a friend at a particular location and time and somehow you were able to do without relying on ten phone calls (where are you?, you said to call you when I got to main street now you are not answering your phone, OMG). Let's add a track device that will eliminate that desperate call and replaces it with (just track me when I get downtown and we can hook up). All of this "convenience" seems like like a lot more work and less efficient than, "meet you at the corner of main and high street 12 o'clock."
Jealous boyfriends and girlfriends you just got a new tool to broaden your suspicions that your mate "may" be cheating. Have fun.
Now Microsoft will copy this feature, and on the Windows 7 phones it will be called the Find Some Friends . . . Please? feature.
think I would rather have "Wireless Syncing" of my iPhone that people have been asking for for years over this Find My Friend feature....
This application is for people who loose their friends, like in a party.
If you do not have any friends? I do no... ask Steve.
I don't have any friends. Can Steve be my friend?
Wasn't this done before with the "Where you at?" ad campaign?
It seemed like kind of a flop then.
Maybe people will feel better about Total Information at some point in the future but I'm not sure that everyone needs to be able to see my location in real time.
I have a phone that you can reach me from everywhere, which is better than the pager that I had before that.
I don't remember ever asking for my phone to also be a tracking device.
It seemed like kind of a flop then.
Maybe people will feel better about Total Information at some point in the future but I'm not sure that everyone needs to be able to see my location in real time.
I have a phone that you can reach me from everywhere, which is better than the pager that I had before that.
I don't remember ever asking for my phone to also be a tracking device.
Don't know if the resolution is good enough - it sometimes shows me one or two blocks down the road (but I'm 'indoor' than ... might work better outdoors)
anyway: I hope this is not automatically enabled. I already hate all those 'location postings' that crawl up everywhere - don't want that by default on my phone (when I have mobile.me installed).
This post made me think of the movie Wall-E where the two people were videochatting with each other when they were right next to each other.
Also, there was an episode of South Park where the internet goes down and everyone was sent to a refugee camp with the only working internet connection was. Stan's sister sees the boy she's been "dating" online. They have an awkward conversation and are like "I'll text you later."
So many people today are so focussed on technology, they completely forget basic social skills don't know what to do if the power's out or something. I miss talking to people face to face, playing board games, reading actual, physical books, etc. While technology does make some forms of communication easier, but it's no replacement for real human contact.
As if they couldn't do that with "Find my iPhone." This whole "automatically telling people exactly where I am all the time" freaks me the hell out. Whatever happened to personal privacy?
Nope, it's management bulls*it speak, a word which sounds dynamic and synergistic, forward-thinking etc etc Sounds impressive but that's pretty much it. Oh and it's a pet hate of mine, please excuse
Funny how Apple can add a simple feature that could be very useful and so many people have to chime in with negative comments.
Ugh!
Actually its not funny at all. You see we pay for MobileMe. Even now there is god knows how many "find your friend" apps around and they are free! So why on earth would I want to have a service like that from Apple. I want bandwidth, I want to store all my music on the cloud or actually make that all my documents. That would be a service I would like to see and not some "Apple iStalk app".
Bingo!
I strongly suspect Find My iPhone is becoming a standard feature on iOS, with tighter integration and renamed as Find My Friends.
Paranoid?
Couple of things...
First, Apple will never ever turn this on without your explicit permission. And even then, you'll get to specify exactly who gets to see your location. So relax, and don't tap the ON button beside Find My Friends.
Second, I know there are other apps out there that claim to do this same thing, and I've used them. They're very very unreliable. Here's hoping that Apple's version will give me reasonable positions of all those people I'm "stalking"!
So quit bitchin about Apple adding a feature that you have the option to use or not use. I want it and I'll use it.
Couple of things...
First, Apple will never ever turn this on without your explicit permission. And even then, you'll get to specify exactly who gets to see your location. So relax, and don't tap the ON button beside Find My Friends.
Second, I know there are other apps out there that claim to do this same thing, and I've used them. They're very very unreliable. Here's hoping that Apple's version will give me reasonable positions of all those people I'm "stalking"!
So quit bitchin about Apple adding a feature that you have the option to use or not use. I want it and I'll use it.
Yes, I was trying to be funny.
Also, How long until you get a job and your employer gives you an iPhone ,and then requires that you allow them to use "Find my friends" to see where you are at any time? Some employers already "require" facebook friending and creepy stuff like that.
Also, How long until you get a job and your employer gives you an iPhone ,and then requires that you allow them to use "Find my friends" to see where you are at any time? Some employers already "require" facebook friending and creepy stuff like that.
Interesting idea. An application just like this called Prowl Owl was just released, although it uses your Facebook friends rather than your mobile me contacts. Almost makes more sense. Check it out:
Prowl Owl on iTunes
Prowl Owl on iTunes
Stop saying "Leveraging" it's not a real word! Why not just say using?
/rant
That's the real word; the meaning is the same as for "using".