Is this app a really bad idea

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So i've just heard about this new app tube chat that uses bluetooth to connect phones on the tube londonist.com/london/transport/this-app-wants-to-get-people-talking-on-the-tube

Apparently the inventor noticed how everyone was forcused on their phones and thought shed get everyone talking

Im not one to cry peadophile or think every man is a sexual preditor towards women but they exist

But what worries me is the number of secondry school children who travel on the tube could this not open them up to grooming? Theres going to be no parental supervision on the way to school.

What about cyber bullying, isnt it another way for bullies to send malicious messages unhindered

And then the sexual harrassment of women?

I appricate the sentement and trying to get people interacting

But i just dont know this is a good idea aibu

londonist.com/london/transport/this-app-wants-to-get-people-talking-on-the-tube

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I’m not entirely sure why it’s needed to be honest. I’ve never met anyone in my life that hankered for a chat on the Tube. The only people who ever complain are professional northerners who say they miss having a chat on the bus of a morning and would love to fill that void by shouting at someone across the roar of a train going full speed through a tunnel for minutes on end.

Well i thought the same yes people are engrissed in their phones but peoppe have never really spoken on the tube have they every one used to hide behind newspapers
Books and whatever document they studied

Bluejacking ?

This idea is no more stupid or dangerous than Tinder or Uber. The first encourages random people to sleep with each other and the latter invites people to jump into strangers' cars. At least this one doesn't actually encourage you to meet up or share any other details. You can connect via bluetooth but it doesn't mean you have to tell anyone who you are or meet with them. Everything can be dangerous. Just exercise judgement and common sense. And the main thing, of course, nobody is forcing anyone to use anything.

Apps aren’t compulsory, you can easily avoid this

I don’t think anyone did suggest it was compulsory. That doesn’t mean we can’t discuss the merits of it.

I remember as a teen in pubs it being the thing to seen who else was on Bluetooth nearby and asking to connect. How is this any different? It's just an app that does it instead.

Im quite aware that apps arent composary

However theres peer presure for teenagers, teenagers download things withbout parental knowledge,

Yes prehaps mini but to me its just another way for malious messages to invade chipdrens lives.

This isn't an original idea. I remember a website had a similar idea about 15 years ago where by you turned on your webcam and you would connect to.someone else on their webcam. The inevitable happened and it was flooded with dick pics and porn and people promptly stopped using it.