Scale wants to post weight chart to Facebook
Posted by By cdharris at 2 September, at 20 : 03 PM Print
My new scale at home — a sleekly gorgeous black slab of glass — asked me if I wanted to share my weight chart to my Facebook or Twitter friends.? Apart from that being a terrifying idea,? it also raises some interesting questions about the implications of widely sharing this kind of data online,
? how wireless devices like this one will aggregate and store data, and whether it would actually help a person knock off some lbs. if their scale threatened to tell everyone about a backslide.?? And if I would ever dare to share …
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