by Anti-Foodie | Introducing Foodspotting, a new service and companion iPhone app that allows food geeks the chance to reveal their sad and lonely lives in even greater detail (as if blogs, Facebook and Twitter weren’t tragic enough). Now they can take crappy photos of restaurant dishes and instantly share them online with their little gourmet buddies around the world so that they – poor they – can follow in their dorksteps like lemmings to the self respect slaughter.
Good grief. There was once a time when we thought of banning cell phones at my restaurant…
“Excuse me madam”.
“Yes?”
“I’m afraid we don’t allow cell phones in the restaurant”.
“Sure, but I’m not using the phone part. Only the camera. It’s for this cool new app called…”.
“Yeah, OK. It’s just that the rule is quite precise: ‘no cell phones'”.
“But that’s ridiculous! I’m only taking a picture of my salad and sharing it with the world”.
“I know. How ridiculous.”
It’s a shame we never followed through on that.
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Cell phones should be banned in restaurants.
Alternatively, all restaurants should have a Faraday cage built around them.
Unless you’re on a bad date, of course, in which case a cell phone can be very useful.
If it wasn’t documented on the internet, who can say whether it really happened? Or better yet, whether it was any good?
I was having a conversation about this app over the weekend. Suddenly, real life becomes a game. This week’s champion: http://www.foodspotting.com/triccie
When games invade real life:
http://www.ted.com/talks/jesse_schell_when_games_invade_real_life.html
If you’re short on time, start at 20:00