Foursquare

I absolutely love the idea of Foursquare and wish they had it implemented in the Tampa area. However, I think the technology of the program should be used only as a social network for adults. Although many might think that this is a good way for parents to keep tabs on where their children are, I believe that constant monitoring of a kid's whereabouts is wrong. Children in the United States cannot obtain their driver's license until the age of 16. Any kid under this age needs their parents to drive them to places or have a friend pick them up from their home. In either situation, the parents would be able to know where their child was going (unless they have a child who lies without reason, in which case, there are more serious issues at hand).

Although this is a new program from monitoring a person's whereabout, the idea has been in the works for awhile. GPS is a relatively old technology and programs including Foursquare are only building on it. In the future, I expect to see a number of location monitoring programs that parents can use to track their kids, through the GPS in their phone and in cars, letting the parents know what destination the user has entered as well as the time and date.