How much 'lifelogging' could you tolerate?

[Jazzy]

With new devices allowing two photos a minute to be taken automatically, critics warn that over-sharing could be mean people become unwitting subjects of surveillance.

"People are using more and more technology and hardware devices to track their lives," says Martin Kallstrom, co-founder and CEO of Memoto.

His company has produced a device which clips onto clothing and automatically takes geotagged photos two times a minute, producing around four gigabytes over an active 24-hour period.

If worn for 12 hours each day, that is 10,000 photos a week.

"Lifelogging", as it is known, means that entire lives are becoming not just a series of memories but a series of photos, videos, tweets and status updates.

Though people share some strange things online.

"Um serious question! I'm doing my taxes how do I claim my cat as a dependent?!?!?!?!?! I need to know by tonight!"

Photographic memory
The phrase "information overload" has been overloaded into articles fearing the worst - about the death of privacy, of personal security, of remaining anonymous or even being able to find anything worth viewing.

But some businesses are capitalising on the fact that people now want every special moment to be recorded so it will never be lost.

Microsoft is already selling a device called SenseCam which takes photos every 30 seconds in a similar way.

The list goes on with Google Glass for video that can be streamed along with photos, Twitter for instant written updates and a large number of others for nearly everything that could be thought of.

But the small size of Memoto has caught the imagination even before its launch.

Promoted as a "searchable and shareable photographic memory", it raised money using the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.

In a bid for $50,000, they raised $550,000 (£360,000). It seems like having an "always-on" attitude to photography intrigues a large number of people.

Could it be that too much information for some is just enough for others?

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What are your thoughts about "lifelogging"?

 

[Evil Eye]

Well, if people wanna do that sorta thing... fine by me. I'm not joining in though. No thanks.

 

[DrLeftover]

My first thought was: "If you are doing this, stay the hell away from me."

 

[Evil Eye]

My first thought was: "If you are doing this, stay the hell away from me."

That too, I guess.