Welcome to the socially awkward person’s dream.
Avoid this feeling at all costs
NBC Universal
Cloak is a new app that bills itself as "incognito mode for real life." It uses the location data from your Foursquare and Instagram to chart out on a map where all your friends and acquaintances are lurking. Your ex just posted a photo to Instagram at 58th St.? ALERT ALERT! STAY AWAY!
It's like a reverse Foursquare: Instead of knowing where your friends are in case you want to join them, you can monitor where they are to actively avoid bumping into them. It's a genius concept, even if it does seem to assume that you're constantly running into old flames, familiar faces, and terrible humans on the street.
Because people don't stay in the same place forever, their icons will start to fade four hours after checking in on Foursquare or posting an Instagram pic tagged with a location.
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