Fitness Site Accidentally Shows Sexual Activity

smitty777 writes "FitBit is a wearable device created to track calorie usage based on activities. Unfortunately for some users, one of those is sexual activities. The information gained from the device is uploaded to the users online web account, which is searchable by Google. From the article: 'Yikes. Users of fitness and calorie tracker Fitbit may need to be more careful when creating a profile on the site. The sexual activity of many of the users of the company’s tracker and online platform can be found in Google Search results, meaning that these users’ profiles are public and searchable.'" It's just a matter of time before a line gets crossed and a relationship gets ruined by trying to post the largest Fitbit numbers for the evening.

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[iceperson]

Taking a dump is a normal human function too. I'm not sure that I'd like people to be able to google my every bowel movement.

Just because something is "normal" doesn't mean it should be done in public.

Re:Problem

[ElectricTurtle]

First, according to the Ethnographic Atlas Codebook, of 1231 societies studied, only 186 were monogomous, 453 practiced some polygyny, 588 had more frequent polygyny, and 4 were polyandrous. In fact, ethologists now believe that only one to two percent of all species may be monogamous (Tucker, William In press National Review: All in the Family. New York: National Review Press). None of the simian species are strictly monogamous; our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, practice a form of group marriage. Among the 849 human societies examined by the anthropologist Murdock (1957: American Anthropologist: World Ethnographic Sample. 59: 664-687.), 75% practiced polygyny.

Those are just the first three things I came up with in a five minute search. There have been hundreds, even thousands, of scholarly papers written on this subject. It is so common, so fundamental to sociology and anthropology that I have no reservations on calling you out. You probably never knew anything about the subject to forget.