The Modern Day Function of Phones

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.