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I think it's crazy that they by default share when you have sex, for how long, and how hard, but that they decided that weight and bmi information should be private.

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They don't. When I created a fitbit account, I chose whether or not I wanted my profile public. Then, when I want to log an activity, I enter in a name and duration for it.

So if I choose to have a public profile, accessible to the world (which was clear to me when I signed up), then I choose to make an activity called "sexual activity", it's indexable and publicly visible.

Weight and bmi are information about you. Sex and other activies are information of your activies. It's simply grouped as it should be.

And that comment right there is why programmers shouldn't design social networks.

Indeed, it's why they should grow an ethical/moral portion in their brain as well -_-'

Being a professional doesn't mean you should ignore ethical or moral concerns.

Yes, with the notable exceptions of the designers of like, every successful social network ever.

"To be is to do" - Socrates

"To do is to be" - Sartre

"Do Be Do Be Do" - Sinatra

"yabba dabba doo" - Fred Flintstone

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