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Social Networking: it's come to this...
Seriously, are too many people not getting narcissistic enough these days, feeling the need to Tweet and Facebook every 10 minutes to tell everyone what they are doing, as if they are really "that" important??
This makes the bluetooth earpiece and social networking sites look tame. Coming soon: LIFELOGGING. It's a pendant you wear around your neck with a little camera inside aimed at your face, recording every second of your life so "all those people who are so intereted in you" can be relieved that they don't have to wonder anymore 
| quote: | Last week news broke that a commercial version of a camera worn around the neck to capture photos of your every moment is to be launched. It was originally invented to help people with memory problems.
It has been said before that an era of lifelogging, in which people will record and broadcast their daily lives, is on the way. But this time it might happen – people are already capturing many things about their lives and sharing them via social networking sites. The launch of the new camera and new research from Microsoft suggest people are ready to take the final steps.
...in field tests volunteers used their "glancephones" for a lot more. They wanted others to see what they were doing, not that they were busy: for example, showing off that they were eating in a fancy restaurant or letting colleagues see they were at home watching TV while the others were working late.
What's more, the gadget intended to stop untimely electronic chat quickly became another channel for it. When someone looks out of your glancephone, the phone lets you know with a visual notification of their name. People soon began to interpret those as a request to peer back at someone through their own glancephone. They became like network-enabled versions of the ViconRevue. |
http://www.newscientist.com/article...ref=online-news
Read the rest of the article... it's laughable and disturbing all at the same time.
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