Comments on: Those darn kids and their texts — and their not geolocating http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/03/19/those-darn-kids-and-their-texts-and-their-not-geolocating/ Let's just see what happens Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ed Blachman http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/03/19/those-darn-kids-and-their-texts-and-their-not-geolocating/comment-page-1/#comment-73183 Ed Blachman Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:16:48 +0000 http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/?p=11718#comment-73183 I don’t know whether it’s caution, or just concern over a combination of cost and battery life issues. As far as battery life is concerned: the buzz from SXSW seems to have been that location-based services are lovely but they eat your battery right up. From a cost perspective, all I can say is that at least my (teenage) daughters are on a plan bought by their miserly dad under which they can (and do) text to their heart’s content, but are very limited in their monthly data allotment. (They could exceed the allotment, but then I’d claw back the overage from them.)

Or maybe it’s a lack of time? Seems like the allure of location-based services lies in serendipity: being in a place with free time on your hands and no strong plan for spending it. That sounds like something that would be more common for college students (and even more so young graduates) than for high school students, especially during the school year.

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