Last week my fellow blogUT writer, Julia, wrote a great piece dispelling the alleged evils of social media. This week, I'm continuing that thought.

As Julia mentioned, social media has given us all the opportunity to keep in touch with our friends, reconnect with lost ones, and even share relevant (and well, sometimes not so relevant) information with each other with a simple 140 character tweet. More than anything else, Twitter and other social media tools lets us "learn about and interact with the world in real time, and in a way we never imagined".

I'd like to take this one step further. Not only has social media given us this chance to connect with each other on a one-on-one basis, but it has also opened the way for a much more far-reaching and collective purpose. Case in point? Tweetsgiving. Never heard of it? Let me give you the low down.

Okay, so I've been checking out a few augmented reality apps that are being developed and it is just absolutely ridiculous how far we've come in terms of technology. I'm not even gonna lie...this stuff seriously blows my mind! The things that people come up with these days is amazing. Some of the stuff is actually really helpful like my personal fave, the Nearest Tube app that directs you to the nearest subway station. But as always, there are two sides to the coin and so I bring to your attention the above video, TAT's Augmented ID. The concept that someone can just use their iPhone and find all of my online profiles is too creepy. I'm all for information at your fingertips but uh, don't you think this is a little much?