Bees do it

Not that.

Knowing where to go and what to do next. Or ants. Them too. I have to believe that both species of bug must have teeny tiny cell phones with teeny tiny apps giving them their marching orders. Just like, it appears, humans are now doing.

Except for me.

But that’s because I am still getting up to snuff with the whole app world in general. The app “Where”, for example, letting me know exactly where I am at any given moment in time, is only starting to make sense, let alone an app telling me where I am supposed to go next.

But for those of you cutting edge types, the latest thing I heard of is something called Foursquare. I am pretty certain that it isn’t the newest, or the only one in this field, it’s the only one I could pronounce and spell.

I suppose the upside of this app is not only does it let you know where to go next, but which of your friends are also going to be there. Which, I imagine is really helpful if you know who you don’t want to see.

The article I read seemed to liken this kind of monitoring to wearing an ankle bracelet, the next step up from house arrest. Decidedly unattractive concept, don’t you think? 
I get the upsides of this technology for the media world, advertisers and the 20 something year old audience that is subscribing…in droves…to this. 

Or is that subscribing in drones? Bzzzzz.

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