My entrepreneurial idea is one for an app that would run on
both Apple and Android products, particularly smartphones, ipads and
tablets. The app, called “Connected” is
one that allows you to stay in touch with your friends easily no matter where
you are. Using Apple and Android
integrated software, this app automatically shows the location of your closest
friends via GPS right on your mobile device.
You will never lose your friends again!
In class we learned a lot about
social media sights such as Twitter and Facebook are taking over the world as
the leading source of real time news.
These websites/apps allow users to connect to world events whenever and wherever. My app “Connected” allows attempts to connect
users via mobile device and acts as a social media tool as well. I would be able to use these other social
media sights to help promote my app and I can also integrate these other sights
into my app so people can connect and share through the major media outlets
that already exist.
An existing
issue with many social media sights, however, is privacy or the lack
thereof. Facebook, for example,
technically owns the rights to all photos, posts and comments you make on their
website. How private is your information
really when you are complying to these terms of use? My app, Connected, is especially tricky when
it comes to privacy protection. Since
you will be able to track others in real time, both users must be in full
agreement that this can exist.
There will
be a user agreement that states that the privacy of your location is secure
unless you accept others manually to allow them to track your location. The app also incorporates events and
locations that users can meet at. Any
time a user wants to connect in any way with another, they must allow tracking
to occur. A user may select an option in
the settings of the app to “always allow tracking from certain contact OR from
all people.” The default setting,
however, will be to manually accept tracking for each individual every
time. This way the app will truly be
private unless the user requests otherwise.
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