I got an email from Fitbit today. Since Google bought Fitbit a couple of years ago, I have to wonder why this is coming now...? "Now that Fitbit is a part of Google, we’re updating our Privacy Policy to support the upcoming introduction of Google Accounts on Fitbit. Using a Google Account means you’ll get industry-leading security and unified privacy controls, all while keeping your new and historical Fitbit health & wellness data. As always, your Fitbit health & wellness data won’t be used for Google ads and will be kept separate from Google ads data." As if anyone believes Google hasn't been/won't do any tracking on Fitbit devices. They can keep tabs on me walking around my backyard.
Why people need more gadgets to assist them with their moving routines is beyond me. They must like to give more to Bill Gates.... . Do what you can do, push yourself a little but just MOVE>
Having an activity tracker has nothing to do with Bill Gates, so I am not sure why you think that @Joy Martin . All kinds of different companies make activity trackers, from very cheap to very expensive ones. Tracking activity might not be important to everyone; but when it IS important, then the tracker really helps. My Apple Watch tells me how far i walk or swim each day, and what my heart rate was when i was doing that. It measures my heart rate at night, and how deeply I am sleeping, and if I woke up during the night. It measures my blood oxygen levels, even when i am sleeping, and I can also do an EKG with the watch to see how my heart rhythm is doing. The Apple Watch reminds me to get up and walk for a minute or two each hour, to help keep from getting stiff, it tells me how many calories I have burned each day, and how many active minutes I have spent. The information goes into my apple health app, and from there it keeps charts, so I can tell if I am improving or not. It is easy to show any of this information to my doctor if needed, because it is all stored on my phone. I share the health information with my daughter, so she can look at it and see how I am doing health wise. As an emergency device, it allows me to call for help should i fall and need someone to rescue me, if I fell and passed out, then it calls 911 and also alerts my emergency contacts and tells them where I am at, so it is possible to find me. Of any device that i have had, my Apple Watch does more for me than anything else ever, and I would not want to be without it.
Ok ok Yvonne you need a device to tell you what and when to go...wonder how the generation before me and most of my generation didn't have a device to tell them when to MOVE.... Telling others how we're doing is effective voice to voice, the phones or messaging. It's amazing since my daughter is taking the Methyl Blue I can hear her overall improvement in her voice.... Many yrs ago and I never forget this, my dear mom was probably 85 then and I had her taking Grape Seed Ex and I could here her improvement in her voice, 3000 miles away when we phone talked.
A tracker doesn't "tell them when to move." It's more of a motivational device for some people, and in Yvonne's case it is helpful for keeping tabs on her heart function as she has heart failure and wears a pacemaker. If you have no interest in these devices I don't know why you feel compelled to judge other people who do.
Because of the FACT that the watch pretty much saved Yvonne’s life, I would imagine that under the same circumstances, the generation before you died. Matter of fact, under the same circumstances you would probably be pushing up roses too.
My husband would not be aware he had several Atrial fibrillation events if it wasn’t for his Apple Watch due to most of them occurring while he was sleeping, same applies when he slipped in the shed and broke his hip ,he could have been in the shed alone with a serious break for hours ……which is a injury that takes many seniors life, instead he was able to phone me from his watch to tell me he’d hurt himself ( no phone on him at the time only his watch ) We will never be without a watch they are our safety alerts for heart rate / ECG / breathing/ exercise/ pace / alerts if our heart rate go’s over or under set rate / sleep and all the info is there on the phone to show your GP or other medical specialists . We mix socially with a big group of seniors ….many of whom are well over 90 years young and still dancing ballroom dancing / wearing a fitness watch they swear by as their safety switch .
Yep just take a walk around old cemetery’s they tell the story how long people lived many years ago . When we was traveling in our caravan we visited a cemetery in Victoria that had 1600 people buried in it there was a sign up saying ……... NOT ONE of the deceased in this cemetery reached the age of 40 years old
I realize that @Joy Martin was zeroing in on a device that tells one to move. The command seems trivial and superfluous but on the contrary, it’s almost a body saver to some especially for those who sit behind a computer all day whether at work or mulling around the net. People get wrapped up with what they are doing so bathroom and lunch breaks are the only exercise millions of people get throughout the day. When folks are reminded to get up, stretch it out and walk around for a minute, one’s circulation, breathing, use of muscles not to mention allowing the brain to rest a moment improves the overall well being of that person. The reminder only helps set a regimen that people can build into their daily lives and commit to a healthy habit. So far as a couple of past generations goes, there were sit down jobs then too. Switchboard operators, typists, line work, clerk positions, draftsmen, architects, lawyers, etc all sat for lengthy periods of time not thinking of getting up once an hour just to shake out the wrinkles.