I think I’ve discovered the most anal website ever. No not that kind of anal you filthy bunch, I’m talking about the Monica Gellar from Friends branch of anal, the kind that prompts the use of a calculator at a restaurant or collateral for borrowing a pen at work. Foamee is designed for the kind of people you cross the road to avoid. Self described as, “…a free service that helps track who you owe beers or coffee to (and vice-versa) using the popular messaging service, Twitter.” Foamee along with it’s devil partner in crime Twitter are beginning the slow consumption of your private life.
I myself am an absolute slave to Twitter with friends who are just as excruciatingly bored as me, but somehow have twice as interesting lives because they aren’t mine, updating through Twitter’s SMS service. I now know exactly where they are and what they are doing throughout the day. I feel like Davina sodding McCall, watching all the time, reporting on lives I see maybe once a week at best. Now comes Foamee…a charming little site that boasts the ingenius idea that you can keep a record of drinks you owe people when you are out. Maybe I’m frivellous in not really caring if I’m owed a drink because inevitably I’ll be given a drink by them or someone else which will cancel it out, it’s all a bit My Name is Earl I know but still, I don’t quite see the point.
I don’t really have much of a point to this entry, I think it was more my eagerness to blog about an anal website and get off with the clean conscience.
*waves from the other side of the street*
I don’t think it is so much anal as it is just a fun idea. With all the corporate crap out there, I think that it’s kindof a relief to have something fun for the sake of being fun out there.
Hope I wasn’t too anal about having fun.
Twitter is so addictive because it feeds our social/ego eagerness to be _up on everying_ and _in the know_. There’s also the fact that we all think the grass is greener on someone else’s side of the fence, and twitter gives us the chance to stand in the back yard all day long, peering over the cedar boards that make our lives unique. I know I fall prey to it, but I love twitter more than I hate it.
I’m with you on foamee… I don’t really get it either.
Rogie, yeah it is a fun idea, I can just see a lot of people I know use it which scares me since if they were anymore organised they’d be following flow charts rather than having a real conversation heh.
Foamee is dumb. It was made by someone with too much time on their hands. Get real people. Yikes.