Rave CEO Roger Desai says "The phone is the primary tool for planning and organizing lives today." (From "Students' New Best Friend: 'Mosos'"
As a blackberry user, I use my blackberry more often than I use my computer or telephone. I use it for email, and I even use it to do the reading assigned to us in this class. As a result I really hate how much I use my blackberry. I find myself checking it for new messages and such all the time, and whenever I hear that "ring bing" i reach for my phone, when it is often someone else's blackberry. I use the calender function religiously, making it my primary tool for organization.
The idea of the Drift though completely freaks me out. I think adding GPS feastures is taking things too far. Of course this is just my opinion, and as cool as I think the technology is behind this tool, I think it's just taking social networking/cellular devices too far. GPS is a great tool in general, and i have made a few 911 calls in my life, and I know the police use GPS when tracing those calls, but to use GPS for networking seems like using an advance tool in a not necessary way.
I was happy to read that GPS system is making you able to opt in or out, so security will not be as much an issue, but I am sure regardless of that we will soon be reading about security concerns relating to MoSoSo phones. I really am excited to see if MoSoSo does well. I know there are probably many people really excited about it, but I think it is just superfluous and dangerous.
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I completely understand the difficulty of phone addiction. Ever since I got the iPhone for Christmas I check my email, oh, about every 5 minutes on average. It's horrible, but I feel like I need to know what is going on at all times. I even added a button to my home screen so that I can go directly to the sixdegrees.wikidot.com, our classes home page so I can do my readings and check homework. Not to mention, I also saved my blog there in case I needed to write a post while on the go.
While my phone is my life, I agree and think that a GPS system might be going a little to far for me. However, I think that it is a great option for your phone so that you can make that decision for yourself. I would really rather not have some creeper tapping into the GPS system on my phone to figure out where I am at what time. No thanks. It would be best if you could turn it on and off as needed.
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