I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me

The urinal test . Everybody who’s anybody (hardy-har-har) has downloaded it, or mooched the test off of a friend, or has at least heard of it. If you haven’t well let me fill you in. it test’s the player’s ability to be a gentleman when the urinal fills up. These are called apps. It’s what is sold us or in some cases GIVEN to us free of charge.



“Hey wait a second. Free?” you say.

“Why yes. Free”

“What’s so horrible about that? I LOVE free annnnnd I’d LOVE to see if I’m a pissing gentleman”



Well the problem isn’t necessarily connected to the Urinal Test app, but more so to the tracking apps. “Tracking? Huh? Like tracking deer for the hunt?!” Basically sir (or madam), you’re being tracked by large companies all paying to get your attention. “What kinda apps ‘track’?” Well…since you asked… It’s really any app that has to do with location. For example: YouTube, Yelp, Urbanspoon, TMZ, and even your good friend the GPS. All of these apps and many many, many more work together to get your attention to mosey on to their store and spend your hard earned dough on their product. Yup. The apps you hold near and dear to your heart can be spying on you. Right now.



How many of you just frantically went on to your cell phones and tried to cancel some of your apps? How many of you at least took a PEEK at them, so make sure you didn’t have any of those treacherous tracking apps on your phone? It’s a pretty creepy idea, since we’ve become such a digitally dependant society. Can you imagine no phones? No computers? NO INTERNET?! You wouldn’t be reading this right now, since you’d be too busy trying to rub two stones together to make a flame and cook your dinner. “Oh man! What kind of information do they collect?” Well, my friend, at least 20 pieces of info on you such as consumer data, including income, housing, and spending power. What you do on your 3G isn’t only for YOUR eyes. Somebody is spying on you , and gathering it to make you one SUPER consumer. The scary thing (as if it isn’t scary enough) is most people don’t even know they’re being tracked. Which is why taking your self off of the company’s list is near impossible.



Since none of these apps collect or ‘pin-point’ your exact location, nor your exact home address, you can’t sue them! So far, as I’m typing this, there are no rules in place to regulate or protect your privacy from these apps. It seems almost as if you have a little secret squirrel in your pocket! Now your Blackberry, PDA, Zune and ‘whatever-is-left’ users aren’t immune to the tracking apps. If you’ve ever downloaded a free game onto ANYTHING, friends, you’ve been tracked. The evolution of the cell phone is mind boggling; I mean they practically speak for us! At least to advertising companies they do!... Soon we’ll have talking advertisements!...Oh wait. We do.