Comments on: First, the Quantified Self. Now, the Over-Quantified Self https://ethicalnag.org/2013/12/13/first-the-quantified-self-now-the-over-quantified-self/ Marketing Ethics for the Easily Swayed Sat, 28 Dec 2013 09:45:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Alberta Bound https://ethicalnag.org/2013/12/13/first-the-quantified-self-now-the-over-quantified-self/comment-page-1/#comment-116367 Sat, 28 Dec 2013 09:45:47 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=12963#comment-116367 Pretty sharp questions for Fard – I look forward to reading his book. Thanks for this teaser.

]]> By: Carolyn Thomas https://ethicalnag.org/2013/12/13/first-the-quantified-self-now-the-over-quantified-self/comment-page-1/#comment-115218 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 17:22:18 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=12963#comment-115218 In reply to Donna Cusano (@deetelecare).

Thanks for weighing in here, Donna (and also for your eminently quotable quotes that I like to use whenever writing on this subject!) I agree – when Fard says: “More people will be asked (or required) to engage in self-tracking whether they are part of the Quantified Self movement or not”, that is indeed chilling.

]]> By: Donna Cusano (@deetelecare) https://ethicalnag.org/2013/12/13/first-the-quantified-self-now-the-over-quantified-self/comment-page-1/#comment-115212 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:57:06 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=12963#comment-115212 A spot on interview–and Fard is very clear about the disconnect between the worried well and those people who need the tracking most, but can’t make sense of all the data at a prime time for upset.

His last two paragraphs are, as Angela said, chilling. The invisible (to most) use of this data in a form of government/business surveillance is WRONG, yet we are ‘going along with the gag’. It’s not like this is crime or terrorism….

]]> By: Carolyn Thomas https://ethicalnag.org/2013/12/13/first-the-quantified-self-now-the-over-quantified-self/comment-page-1/#comment-113102 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 01:02:52 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=12963#comment-113102 In reply to angelaursery.

😉

]]> By: angelaursery https://ethicalnag.org/2013/12/13/first-the-quantified-self-now-the-over-quantified-self/comment-page-1/#comment-113100 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:45:59 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=12963#comment-113100 In reply to Carolyn Thomas.

Thank you for your kind words (though, as they say in Nigeria, “It is easy to spit from the shoulders of a giant.” Your post is so stimulating that coming up with a bad comment would be kinda difficult, CT.
Keep kicking butt.
Angela

]]> By: Carolyn Thomas https://ethicalnag.org/2013/12/13/first-the-quantified-self-now-the-over-quantified-self/comment-page-1/#comment-113085 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:12:19 +0000 http://ethicalnag.org/?p=12963#comment-113085 In reply to angelaursery.

So many astute comments, Angela – thank you for these! Some of my thoughts:
#1: according to Pew researchers, only 21% of self-trackers use technology to do so. The vast majority of those who say they’re tracking are doing so only “in their heads”, despite headlines that imply everybody’s using a mobile app for this purpose.
#2: I wrote last week about our digital footprint that marketers are stalking us for.
#3: No, you’re not the only one who shivered at Fard’s prediction of “required” self-tracking. Yoiks…

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