- Twitter how fat you are
Sometimes there is just too much information. I’m not talking about too much information and the challenge to filter, sift and consume, but about too much information, ie that information that we really do not need (or want) to know.
French company Withings, not satisfied with a WiFi-enabled bathroom scale that enables the weight-obsessed to pipe all body fat details to their PC, is now extended the machine’s capabilities to Twitter with auto-tweets going out once you step on the “WiFi Body Scale”.
Yes, in a bid to add real gravitas (gravity?) to the bugeoning online convesation, Withings weighers can now Twitter their intimate body details (thanks to Jennifer Van Grove at Mashable).
As French entrepreneur Loic says in the following clip
Maybe two or three years ago, when we said we were getting fat we should have a WiFi scale that would post to the internet so that it uses social pressure from our friends if we get fat.
Urghh. I’m sure there must be a better use of this social networking lark?
