Cathrina Krab

So, I recently received a request from a friend to join a service called loopt, which is basically a networking site where you can track exactly where your friends are at any moment of the day. For example, if I go onto loopt, I can see that one of my friends is on the corner of two random streets in a major urban center, and he can see that I am making my way down the street in another urban center. That way we can always, ALWAYS keep track of one another.
This is one of those things that sounds pretty much like the worst idea ever, like the greatest invasion of privacy yet (at least since facebook started that thing where it tracks all the sites you visit and posts it on your mini-feed). It very clearly marks the beginning of the end, the point where we enter a future where the government and corporations and various other institutions typically categorized as oppressive have access to all our information and therefore total control over us, etc. In fact, as I was joining I was thinking about how I will most definitely regret this decision in the future. Joining a service like this is asking for trouble. I’m sure in a hundred years, when the streets are overrun with paramilitary police-style minutemen brutally keeping the peace while we sit inside tiny pods trying not to think illegal thoughts and so forth, loopt will be the way they keep track of our every movement.
Anyway, if you want to join, I’m sure you can google loopt or something. And you should text me if you do, because I want to know where you are. Or rather, I WANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE.
I’m at Grand Central now! Come meet me!