Yeah, I feel like there are quite a few scenarios where there needs to be a user recovery system, such as yours, or a person being sick, etc. Although I can't really think of anything you could possibly design it with so that it would allow that, while keeping the structure of the location design. If you make it a complicated process to deactivate the alarm, then it just goes back to being an alarm with a complicated process to turn off...
This is actually quite an interesting idea, of making the ability to deactivate the alarm be a designated location rather than a button or answering a question...
There wasn't too much information on it, but does it require activation every night? And is there anything for the users to recover from in case of an emergency of something like that? Or perhaps warning notifications as it gets closer to the time limit.
You bring up a very solid point. I've been in situations where I was "forced" to give out information such as my conversations with other people, emails, etc. on continuous basis. Although it had nothing to do with work or to a professional level, even on a personal level, that type of information, to me, was private between me and the people I communicate with.
With society heading more towards social media, connections, and networking. Holding secrets seem to be pretty difficult.
If someone were to ask me to tell them a secret, I wouldn't even know what to say. It seems like all aspects of my life is already known by one person or another, or maybe it's so secret that I don't even remember it myself.
I've actually never used Four Square myself but I saw a lot of people use it back in the day... This new feature seems like just the stepping stone for them to implement what they really want, so hopefully in the near future it'll process the type of data you two have mentioned here.
Oh man that looks amazing... It'd be something interesting to follow and see how it goes. Even just watching the video got me excited and curious to see how it all works!
I think that's probably situational. There could be aspects in which they couldn't apologize. If the person really is in a bad mood, it's unlikely that they'll turn around a few minutes later, suddenly feeling better and then being apologetic. And it could also be the case that the person was just a random person who could never contact you again to apologize.
I really like the article overall. It seems somewhat like common sense, and even reading it, I know the next time I bump into a situation like this, it'd still be difficult for me to see it this way.
Thanks for sharing. In the case of GMVault, how "important" do you think your email needs to be for you to use something like that, as opposed to using Google's solution when it comes out? Or asked in a different way, what do you feel GMVault could offer which regularly archiving emails using the Google solution can't?