Have you seen this? It’s a weight scale connected to the Internet so you can automatically share how much you weigh with the world. Not just pounds either, but how much of that is fat vs lean and your BMI (body mass index).
Once again, I am bewildered by the need to broadcast our most intimate details to the world.
Is this attractive to younger women who are used to sharing personal information on social networking sites?
What if it were published in the local newspaper and all the people you meet during the day had a hard copy delivered to them. (Well, that’s a bit of fantasy right there, given the low subscription rate to newspapers these days.) Would you be comfortable knowing that your boss, your customers, your boyfriend, your pastor, all knew how much you weigh or did or didn’t lose since the last time you stepped on the scale? What if they confronted you with it face-to-face?
Will Weight Watchers use this instead of having you weigh in every week?
Is there anything that people won’t share on the Internet anymore? It’s confusing, not knowing where the privacy boundary is drawn anymore.
Would you do this?
* Dream on
I loved the comments, though. I, too, am a bit horrified by what children (and that includes 30 year olds) will share on the internet.
What the hell is wrong with this world?? They actually think people are going to buy the product and into this concept? Or am I missing something here. I would definitely not do this.
I was just wondering how much crazier things could get. whump.
(note to self, stop wondering about that particular issue)
and that would be a ‘hell no’.
Is it good or bad that I could rant about that for hours without coming up for air?
Don’t answer that.
xo
I don’t get it. But then again, I don’t get the whole texting/tweeting thing either…
I don’t look at the scale when I’m on it so it’s a good guess I won’t be sharing it with the world either. Although why anyone else would be interested in my weight is beyond me. You find the damnest things.
Sheesh – my husband doesn’t even know how much I weigh!
Not me, babee. No matter what I weigh.
This is ridiculously hilarious.