Ted Nyman imagines the invasiveness of social media while using the site sex.ly:

— Check-in to sexual encounters. You'll now never forget a night. Describe positions, durations, sounds.

— If (and only if) your partner(s) agrees, you can rate and review them. If they don't, you still can review them as anonymous partners. ...

— Earn sex-cred for number of check-ins, which can be used at sex stores and other selected merchants.

The site is imaginary, but his fears aren't:

We have begun to pollute and desecrate and cheapen all of our experiences. We are creating neat little life-boxes for everything, all tied up with a geo-tag, a photo, a check-in; our daily existence transformed into database entries in some NoSQL database on some spinning disk in some rack in suburban Virginia.

The end-game is this. Slowly, gradually, without realizing: we stop participating in our own lives. We become spectators, checking off life achievements for reasons we do not know. At some point, everything we do is done soley to broadcast these things to casual friends, stalkers, and sycophants.

On a related note, photojournalist Kenneth Jarecke thinks people will regret using Instagram:]]>