ancientt writes:
"Want to avoid someone and have iOS? With the app Cloak, you can. It will connect to Foursquare and Instagram (and soon others) to track people and alert you when they get too close.
The Washington Post quotes an email by the creator, "Personally, I think we've seen the crest of the big social network," Baker wrote in an e-mail. 'Things like Twitter and Facebook are packed elevators where we're all crammed in together ... I think anti-social stuff is on the rise. You'll be seeing more and more of these types of projects.'"
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(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @04:38PM
All married people need this.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by marcello_dl on Friday March 21 2014, @04:44PM
I guess this app will fall out of style once somebody develops the gangbang app, where two or three friends of antisocial app user coordinate their movements to make him run into the accomplice with the powered down phone and the "where's the money you owe me" attitude.
(Score: 1) by CoolHand on Friday March 21 2014, @06:51PM
You lost me at "gangbang app." That definitely wasn't my first thought when combining social app and gangbang..
I think once someone comes up with a true "gangbang app," that it could be immensely popular... of course, I guess, that stuff like kik isn't necessarily too far from that now in some cases...
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job-Douglas Adams
(Score: 1) by bob_super on Friday March 21 2014, @07:25PM
They already have it in India, but the women don't get to choose whether to install an app. /news_is_flamebait
(Score: 2) by marcello_dl on Friday March 21 2014, @10:30PM
> You lost me at "gangbang app"
I purposefully left out stage 2 of the plan.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Geezer on Friday March 21 2014, @05:02PM
Stop bathing. The socially dysfunctional can save both money and water, and let others do the avoiding.
Generations of basement-dwellers have mastered this art.
Oh, wait! An app to track the savings! Maybe... GeekReek?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @05:48PM
Thing is most of these apps already accomplish this but not in the way you think.
Everyone gets together and then spends the whole time messing around with their phones. That is not getting together... Turn that sucker off and talk to me or why did you invite me over...
(Score: 3, Funny) by lx on Friday March 21 2014, @06:57PM
I didn't invite you over. Who are you? Why are you in my house? Stop eating my pudding!
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Friday March 21 2014, @09:59PM
Well, he did eat his meat first.
(Score: 2) by evilviper on Saturday March 22 2014, @04:12PM
If you install a small grey-water system in your home (needs just a barrel and a pump), using your sink/shower water again to flush your toilets and possibly water your lawn, then there is zero water wasted from showering...
Of course, that was never the biggest expense. Heating-up the water is what makes a shower expensive. Solar panels for water heating can make that pretty cheap, too, though still not really free.
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 22 2014, @04:33PM
I guess that depends very much on where you are. I'd expect that in the middle of the Sahara, getting the water would be quite expensive, while heating it up would be basically free.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by evilviper on Saturday March 22 2014, @07:13PM
As a desert dweller myself, I can assure you that water isn't much more expensive, and water heating is still very-much necessary, and dominates the cost.
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tlezer on Friday March 21 2014, @05:25PM
I read that too fast..had to go back and parse it several times. I thought this was going to be about an article of clothing
(Score: 1) by Tork on Friday March 21 2014, @05:38PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Silentknyght on Friday March 21 2014, @06:39PM
So, this app only works if the target uses Instagram / Foursquare, and has their cell phone on their person? Meaning... it's not going to work to hide you from people who don't use those services, or don't have a smartphone---or even aren't carrying it on them at the time.
I understand that it's limited by technology, but this is more "tin foil hat" than "cloak."
(Score: 2) by lx on Friday March 21 2014, @06:59PM
You mean like ninjas?
(Score: 1) by bob_super on Friday March 21 2014, @07:29PM
Don't worry, it's not going to be too long now before anyone is mandated to transmit their GPS position at all time.
Most people already do it with their smarphones or for their car insurance "savings".
"They" will soon find a way to make it too expensive to not comply.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by captain normal on Friday March 21 2014, @06:39PM
If one were really antisocial they wouldn't be involved with things like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, google +...
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @08:27PM
Definitions:
Social: You are invited and you go to the party
Asocial (like asynchronous or asymmetrical): You are invited to the party but you don't go
Anti-social: You are NOT invited to the party but you go anyway
Really Anti-social: You go to the party and try to kill everyone there
-- gewg_
(Score: 4, Funny) by J.J. Dane on Friday March 21 2014, @06:56PM
I imagine a Star Trek t-shirt will do much the same. It'll also work during power outages.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by camaro on Friday March 21 2014, @07:01PM
I realize I don't live in a very urban area (far from it in fact), but I don't actually know anyone who checks in everywhere they go.
(Score: 1) by Drew617 on Friday March 21 2014, @07:24PM
I live in Boston and wondered the same thing.
I have a moderate collection of geek and non-geek friends (no, seriously) but don't know anyone who uses these.
Who are the people who opt-in to all of these services? And what's wrong with them?
(Score: 2) by dotdotdot on Friday March 21 2014, @07:36PM
Hey, guys! I'm here now.
[Check-in at SN.]
What are we talking about today?
(Score: 3, Funny) by marcello_dl on Friday March 21 2014, @10:35PM
*crickets*
(Score: 1) by DNied on Saturday March 22 2014, @05:32PM
Great, an entomology conference...
(Score: 1) by contrapunctus on Saturday March 22 2014, @10:57AM
i think you mean asocial