El nuevo servicio Latitude, que integra la nueva versión de Google Maps, localiza tu posición y la de todos aquellos que así lo deseen en un mapa. Por el momento era un servicio que tenía a prueba con mi esposa y que situaba de forma certera ambas localizaciones, aunque no exento de errores de posicionamiento en algunas circunstancias.
Esta mañana recibí una invitación en mi BlackBerry para compartir mi localización con un buen amigo. Acepté sin el menor miramiento. No obstante, fue algo que puso a mi cerebro a funcionar tratando de encontrar respuesta a ciertos interrogantes.
¿Realmente quiero que una serie de personas sepan en todo momento donde me encuentro y lo que estoy haciendo? ¿Cual es la verdadera utilidad de las redes sociales a las que este servicio parece pretender asemejarse?
Redes como Facebook que en un principio parecía pretender acercar a personas con intereses comunes, se ha transformado en una comuna de mirones y cotillas. Twitter adolece de interminables secuencias de entradas repletas de pensamientos profundos o utra-minúsculos saludos de buenos días de aquellos que se toman a pies juntillas aquello de "¿qué estas haciendo ahora?". De todos modos sintetizar algo original en 140 caracteres sigue siendo difícil tarea.
Al final, nos hallamos inmersos en una vorágine de redes con fines totalmente desvirtuados donde parece que gana el que más "amigos" tiene. Un juego en el que parece que te ves obligado a entrar para no sentirte desplazado. Dame un trocito de tu vida y serás famoso.
Puede no importar que un amigo de verdad, que lo sea también en la vida real, se entere de determinados aspectos de tu vida. Pero luego están esos otros "amigos" que parece que algunos coleccionan, que puede que no te apetezca que sepan lo más mínimo acerca de ti.
Claro está que cuando somos partícipes de estas redes, debemos asumir eso que para algunos es un inconveniente, pero no impide que aquellas afortunados cerebritos (en el sentido más amplio en lo que a afortunados respecta) implementen restricciones en sus "obras". Si no es ninguna de estas dos posibles opciones, nos queda una tercera y más radical; al igual que la iglesia católica y el sexo, si no es para procrear, no queda otra que la más ferrea abstinencia. Y nos encontramos una vez más al principio, en el mismo momento en el que estamos rellenando los campos del formulario de registro: fuera y con ganas de entrar.
Lo peor de todo quizás sea la cantidad de información acerca de nosotros que puede pulular sin control al alcance de cualquier internauta. El "Aquí hay tomate" o el "¿Dónde estás corazón?" en su versión 2.0, son las redes sociales. Y si no, tiempo al tiempo.
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Internet makes us transparent
Latitude's new service, which integrates the new version of Google Maps, find your position and all those who desire it on a map. By the time it was a service that was tested with my wife who stood and fashion both locations, although not error-free positioning in some circumstances.
This morning I received an invitation on my BlackBerry to share my location with a good friend. Accepted without think about. However, it was something that made my brain to work trying to find answers to some questions.
Do you really want that a number of people knows at all times where I am and what I'm doing? What is the true value of social networks to pretend that this service seems to resemble?
Networks such as Facebook which initially seemed an attempt to bring people with common interests, has become a community of onlookers and gossip. Twitter suffers endless sequence of entries full of profound thoughts or Utra-tiny good morning greetings of those who pretend that the "what are you doing now?" it´s a real question. Anyway is a difficult task to synthesize any into 140 characters .
In the end, we are immersed in a maelstrom of networks for which they seem to completely nullified that wins the most "friends" have. A game where it seems that you are forced to come to not feel moved. Give me a piece of your life and be famous.
It may not matter that a true friend, who is also in real life, he finds certain aspects of your life. But then there are those other "friends" who think that some collections, you may not want you to know the least about you.
It is clear that when we participate in these networks, we must assume that it is inconvenient for some, but excludes those fortunate brain (in the broadest sense with respect to lucky) put restrictions on their "works." If not either of those options, we have a third and more radical, like the Catholic church and sex, if not to procreate, it is also the most ferrea abstinence. And we are once again at the beginning, at the same time when we are filling in the fields on the registration form: the outside and wanting to enter.
Worst of all perhaps is the amount of information that we can not control the swarm by any user. The "Aquí hay tomate" or "Where you heart?" in the version 2.0, are social networks. And if not, time to time.
Latitude's new service, which integrates the new version of Google Maps, find your position and all those who desire it on a map. By the time it was a service that was tested with my wife who stood and fashion both locations, although not error-free positioning in some circumstances.
This morning I received an invitation on my BlackBerry to share my location with a good friend. Accepted without think about. However, it was something that made my brain to work trying to find answers to some questions.
Do you really want that a number of people knows at all times where I am and what I'm doing? What is the true value of social networks to pretend that this service seems to resemble?
Networks such as Facebook which initially seemed an attempt to bring people with common interests, has become a community of onlookers and gossip. Twitter suffers endless sequence of entries full of profound thoughts or Utra-tiny good morning greetings of those who pretend that the "what are you doing now?" it´s a real question. Anyway is a difficult task to synthesize any into 140 characters .
In the end, we are immersed in a maelstrom of networks for which they seem to completely nullified that wins the most "friends" have. A game where it seems that you are forced to come to not feel moved. Give me a piece of your life and be famous.
It may not matter that a true friend, who is also in real life, he finds certain aspects of your life. But then there are those other "friends" who think that some collections, you may not want you to know the least about you.
It is clear that when we participate in these networks, we must assume that it is inconvenient for some, but excludes those fortunate brain (in the broadest sense with respect to lucky) put restrictions on their "works." If not either of those options, we have a third and more radical, like the Catholic church and sex, if not to procreate, it is also the most ferrea abstinence. And we are once again at the beginning, at the same time when we are filling in the fields on the registration form: the outside and wanting to enter.
Worst of all perhaps is the amount of information that we can not control the swarm by any user. The "Aquí hay tomate" or "Where you heart?" in the version 2.0, are social networks. And if not, time to time.
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