I use it to keep track of my son; the electronic tether surprisingly gave him more freedom earlier.
Jason Siegel has written a great essay on the cell phone's cousin:
The Facebook network
A bit from Jason's essay:
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We have been socially diluted, stupefied and consumerified. Most unfortunate of all, we are learning not to care. We have stamped our “statuses,” our most intimate feelings, front-and-center on our very own virtual billboards; we have made peace with two typed words and a smiley as an annual happy birthday wish in its totality, a spectacle made possible courtesy of Facebook date reminders; we have come to accept, even if in jest, that no relationship is official “until it’s on Facebook;” we have become “fans” of colossal corporations; we have read the News Feed and we have liked it; we have lost the motivation to be interested, to inquire, to earn the trust of those who matter most; we have replaced chocolate boxes and teddy bears and cupcakes with their sterilized digital impostors; we have consumed photographs as we do gum, briefly and with little thought; we have associated ourselves with events and groups and global causes not by participation and attendance and thorough involvement but by the flick of a petty finger, and our actions we have disowned just as swiftly with a simple delete or de-tag. Of these offenses I am personally guilty, and maybe you are too.
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