I think there would definitely be some good uses to this program – such as recalling a past conversation and wishing you could find it or searching to see what people have thought about certain movies so that you can decide to either watch or not watch them.

I do have a couple of concerns with a program like this, though.

If this were actually implemented on facebook – I’m afraid that this could do more harm than good for many people. Facebook is already a place a lot of people go to basically stalk their friends. Many people obsess over them to a scary degree.

I just see some heart-broken ex or some insecure boyfriend or girlfriend sitting there searching all of someone’s statuses for random things.

Furthermore – people could look up things like who you wrote a <3 to – in order to figure out who you might be dating. They might see if you haven't posted over certain dates and maybe those dates repeat over certain years hinting that you might be out of your house or something (like an annual vacation).

I don't think most people would do this – but I think it's something you should definitely consider. Any ideas how you could stop something like this? I just wouldn't want to see people use this program to find out some information that they could do a lot of harm with and then for it to appear in the news or something.

I don’t really understand why should we spend money to implement and deploy those goofy RFIDs systems, while there are still increases in tuition and fees. Yes it’s fancy (and concenient, maybe?) but at the same time, those systems are insecure, propretary thus doesn’t integrate well.

What I meant not integrating well is: RFID readers are non-standardized, proprietary, expensive, and does not work with different platforms (While our plain-old magnetic strips readers are cheap and works on almost every system.) Now say we need to convert the nerdery to take those, and say we want to log the entraces, and only allow MathCS students only. Not only we have to buy new readers (obviously), but also we have to question if the software will allow us to do that, or not.

And when you get screwed by the FRID vendor, I guess every single reader and every single intergrated product will have to be thrown away. Doesn’t happen with plain old magnetic strip readers either.

So yeah. I might sound like a freetard, but I do not believe that aside from being fanciness and not destroyable by a magnet, the new id cards will gain us much more than that.