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I think most people know about the collecting data thing. But WhatsApp/Facebook made a big mistake by forcing longtime users to accept the new rules or otherwise to get excluded from the community. This creates a very bad feeling because it’s like someone puts a gun on your chest. Take this or die! Ashole move...


On the side I run my project https://fitnessmodern.de/ about showing people what you can do with modern wearables. When the corona crisis started in Germany I thought: ok, this could be the end for the project. Who is going to leave his apartment now to keep fit or to buy a new gadget.

But exactly the opposite happened. After a sharp collapse in visitor numbers in the first days of the crisis, they shot up again. More than I knew from before. That was astonishing but in retrospect logical: because here in Germany there was no real curfew, only a ban on contact with other people. So people probably thought: before I lounge around at home, I'll do something for my health and fitness. You can also tell from other comments here that fitness projects have worked. That motivated me to do my project even more intensively, because I realized that it is important to people.


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