Fun With Push Notifications

by Guilty Squid on April 27, 2012

I installed a test run of an app on a coworker’s phone today, and it turns out that he’s super para­noid about “peo­ple watch­ing him” which shouldn’t be sur­pris­ing because he’s pretty para­noid about things that can kill him, rain get­ting on his car and “the cloud”.

At first I thought he might be kind of kid­ding, but then I real­ized he was only partly kid­ding, and he’s like totally freak­ing out that I can now see all of his pri­vate thoughts because of an app on his phone. Which is both flat­ter­ing and a lit­tle off-putting. Plus also, the app can’t read thoughts. Probably.

For the record, I’d never sit and spy on him, because I am a pro­fes­sional. And that would be wrong. And because I don’t really have that kind of atten­tion span.

I’m pretty sure that it’s not wrong to send users push noti­fi­ca­tions though, right?

I’m pretty sure that he’s turned the phone off at this point, unless he’s read­ing this right now, in which case, I totally know he turned the phone off.

One of us is going to have a long weekend.

 

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