Comments on: The Quantified Self meets The Urban Datasexual

By: SuspiciousPattern

SuspiciousPattern — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:26:19 +0000

[…] give someone a tracker doesn’t mean they’ll change their behaviors in the long term. Because that’s hard. Most people will end up tracking for only months, perhaps a few years, which is as it should […]

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By: The Unquantified Self

The Unquantified Self — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 01:12:44 +0000

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By: Telehealth Soapbox

Telehealth Soapbox — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:20:51 +0000

[…] the air to interrupt the self-congratulatory high-fives of health tech insiders – the so-called urban datasexuals (about whom Ive previously written on my other site, The Ethical Nag: Marketing Ethics for […]

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By: KKraft

KKraft — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:59:04 +0000

Love this description. Many of my friends & coworkers could be considered urban datasexuals altho they’re too busy texting, head down, or monitoring their wristband health apps to look up and notice what sociologists and others are saying about their self-absorbed behavior. Thanks for this – very enlightening!

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By: Kat U.K.

Kat U.K. — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:28:45 +0000

Brilliant! It’s a generational phenomenon – this need to have one’s mobile device always in sight, always on the ready to text some earth-shatteringly important trivia, always needing to update one’s Facebook status no matter how insignificant the update. Widespread rudeness and narcissism as a social construct.

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By: Ev Carson

Ev Carson — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:30:26 +0000

I agree with Stefan. Keep track of health indicators and lifestyle goal milestones – but do you honestly have to broadcast results to the world via Twitter or your blog or by going to a QS conference? Trust me – nobody is that interested in us except maybe us, and even then I’m not so positive.

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By: Stefan

Stefan — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:07:36 +0000

Yes I have done some self-tracking for health reasons although I have to tell you that until today I would never have identified as a “quantified selfer”. But I DO use a pedometer, I time my training runs, I weigh myself and I occasionally monitor my blood pressure (which tends to fluctuate) Does that make me a self-absorbed QS? Maybe! The big difference IMHO might be that I don’t publish my numbers for anybody else to see – nobody cares about any of it except me (and even I find it not particularly interesting let’s face it).

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By: Carolyn Thomas

Carolyn Thomas — Mon, 28 May 2012 14:34:21 +0000

Are you trying to tell me that everything about me, me, me is NOT worth mentioning?!?😉

For more on this, read Dr. Sherry Turkle: “I share, therefore I am”

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By: RN in NYC

RN in NYC — Mon, 28 May 2012 10:38:59 +0000

“The self-monitoring movement is just another manifestation of our profound self-absorption. When you measure something, presumably you have to react to it. Is the hope that this constant self-monitoring will change our behavior? Just look at how decades of focus on diets and weight have fared.

I agree 100% with Dr. Zilberberg here. Not everything that can be counted, counts. And really, WHO CARES? Isn’t QS a natural outgrowth of a generation of people with obsessive Facebook status updating behaviors, the narcissistic manifestation of believing that everything about me is somehow worth mentioning?

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By: Carolyn Thomas

Carolyn Thomas — Sat, 26 May 2012 23:01:08 +0000

No, you are not alone, RT. And who knows – perhaps there is a meaningful use for keeping track of 20 years of keystrokes?

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By: RTKap

RTKap — Sat, 26 May 2012 18:13:36 +0000

Geez I thought it was just ME who was rolling my eyes over all the fuss about this tiresome QS stuff out there. Unless there is an actual purpose in collecting data about yourself, you should fight that narcissistic urge. And there is not ANY conceivable purpose in counting computer keystrokes….

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