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I deleted my Brightkite account

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on August 28th, 2008 in General

I’d had enough. I stuck with it for months, logged hundreds and hundreds of check-ins … but in the end life got too crowded and I was forgetting to update it … and that really niggles at me, having inaccurate data - when it looks like I’ve spent the night at work because I forgot to check in at home etc. Just so manually intensive. I did give it a good go but there was no ROI - I got maybe 3 proximity alerts over the whole period I used Brightkite, all of them via email because SMS wasn’t working at the time (and I’m still not sure SMS in Australia for Brightkite actually works yet). It’s a good idea but it should be global positioning aware technology updating it for me, not me having to do it manually. Just too much effort for nothing back.

Good-bye Brightkite.

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5 Responses to “I deleted my Brightkite account”

  1. raena Says:
    August 28th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

    Yeah, I’m about this far off doing the same. Then I wonder whether I should keep it in case it takes off.

  2. Gary Barber Says:
    August 28th, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    Okay granted I don’t move around as much as you guys do. But I have NEVER got one alert at all. It’s really just not going to work until it has a localised critical mass. Waste of time.

  3. Ryan Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 10:03 am

    My IlluminateKite was so much better!

  4. NathanaelB Says:
    September 14th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    Ha ha yeah - you still got that? Should post it up …

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