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Has anyone stopped finding the are creepy?
1 posted on 07/12/2019 9:09:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I still rarely use mine on my phone.
The only time I will purposely seek a location app is when I need driving directions. After I get the directions, I remove that app. I don’t want to be ghosted.

I am realistic. It is likely that as long as my battery is in, someone, somewhere can ping me, and find out where I am, but that’s rarely a concern for me.
Almost never am I that worried about it. Still, I just don’t want a constant, unblinking digital eye staring at and recording my every movement outside.


2 posted on 07/12/2019 9:13:57 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: BenLurkin

I wonder what is going to happen to me if I refuse to use
APPS.

I am going to avoid it as long as I can. How long do you think I have????


3 posted on 07/12/2019 9:14:23 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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I did not believe this story for even as long as it took me to read it.

I am assuming that allergic subject (possibly of a female pronoun) was at least 21, if so what are the odds she had never before taken ibuprofen and so had no idea that she might be allergic ?

I think close to Zero.


4 posted on 07/12/2019 9:27:27 PM PDT by algore
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To: BenLurkin

not me.


8 posted on 07/12/2019 9:42:49 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: BenLurkin

This is NPR’s way of tipping off various interested parties in their home town that “Location Apps” are an “emerging regulatory opportunity.”


9 posted on 07/12/2019 9:43:38 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: BenLurkin

If I had to be in constant communication with anyone, I’d soon climb into a cave and scramble my brains with a fork.


13 posted on 07/12/2019 10:57:07 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: BenLurkin

Keep mobile devices in ‘airplane mode’ as much as practicable...


15 posted on 07/12/2019 11:28:32 PM PDT by northislander
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To: BenLurkin

Sweetie, I was having chest pains so I pulled into the Motel 6 parking lot for a few hours.
No, really.


16 posted on 07/12/2019 11:37:28 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Socialism is a gateway Ideology.)
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To: BenLurkin

Wait until all of it: smartphone, credit and debit cards, driver’s licence and passport are all replaced with the mandatory microchip in the right hand or the forehead...


19 posted on 07/13/2019 5:23:34 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: BenLurkin

I kinda like it.

I’m 70 now, but by the time I was 30, I had lost every single member of my family. I was alone completely.

I like knowing that a friend can check on me at my age. I live alone and anything can happen. Sometimes, things like this can be helpful. If I didn’t like it, no one is forcing me to use it.


20 posted on 07/13/2019 5:42:28 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!)
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