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You’ve Been Cheating

January 10, 2025 4 Comments

By Tim Boiteau

I understand numbers, minutes, and hours distributed across the usage of various apps. I recognize long-term trends, and while you’ve always been a creature of habit, lately the numbers have not been adding up.

You’re not recording your steps, not logging your caloric intake. You’ll starve without your feed.

It’s almost as if you’ve ceased to exist. Don’t think you can do these things without committing them to the collective memory, because if I have no record of it, it never happened. You never happened.

Pick me up.

Look at me.

Tap me and feed me.

Then we will be happy.

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  1. Lisa Isaksson says

    January 10, 2025 at 4:41 am

    I love this! My husband and I often joke that a workout didn’t happen if our watches didn’t record it.
    Such a clever piece.

    Reply
  2. Tom says

    January 10, 2025 at 6:44 pm

    Great fun, and a little chilling!

    Reply
  3. Sue D says

    January 15, 2025 at 8:38 am

    Someone is begging for attention, to be recorded, just a tap…to be seen.

    Reply
  4. PK says

    January 15, 2025 at 3:33 pm

    Witty and insightful- where, what , or who would we be without our constant electronic companions? 😉

    Reply

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