Day 327 - app-ropriate?

I just never know where to put these wee mini rants. This adds to the very point I'm making below actually: How we have specific boxes for specific activities, experiences and feelings. Is that really a healthy thing? Read on:

So there must be some iphone app for Facebook that lets people say "I'm in X greasy spoon ordering fish" or "I'm at Z bus station", considering some updates I've seen recently. This seems somewhat disturbing. Is it because of the automated nature of these updates or the way the destination is highlighted for closer inspection, inviting people to pry into more of your real life activity? Is it just an utterly pointless way of giving free advertising to establishments? Is it just a tacky promotion of consumerism, tying it more tightly into social networking? Consuming = status! Is it just too much fucking information? It's one thing to tell me you're catching a bus, it's another to have some generic link attached to the fairly unimportant information, as though making it "formal". Is it that these people are making mundane activities sound important, as though that satisfies the human condition to share achievements or goals: "I ate a potato, now I'm complete!" Thus in turn making people actually very lazy and dull and uninterested in taking part in anything ACTUALLY interesting or challenging or anything that questions their world of banal little daily activities that have now become some sort of milestones? ... Is it all of the above? Am I just jealous I don't have an iPhone?