Vox had an interesting read about location-based mobile media and the question “Should we know where our friends are at all times?”
With constant tracking and check-ins, our everyday lives have become hybrids of online and offline. In anecdotally describing how location-sharing has become, in the words of one of the respondents “so, so common among basically everyone I know”, the author addresses a number of pertinent issues.
One of these is the tension between safety and security, and sociability and a sense of proximity. another is the constant negotiation over access to one’s private life and whereabouts, and the little microstrategies and tactics involved in balancing this, an avoiding awkwardness, creepiness or downright pervasive stalking practices.
Link to original article on Vox.com >>