Me.dium is eerie.

I installed it out of curiosity.

After  installation in Firefox, I got a new sidebar that shows other people who are surfing ‘near’ me. I don’t know how me.dium decides who is ‘near’ me.

Anyway, as my ‘cyber-neighbours’ surf, I see what they are browsing. I could also see me.dium updating what I was browsing.

As I don’t know how me.dium decides who is near me or who I am near, this gives me the creeps. I don’t want people I don’t know seeing what I browse.

When I was doing some administration on this blog, me.dium also updated that I was at my blog. What if my neighbours could then somehow reach my blog’s administration page with me.dium ? I don’t know whether they could, it is just a fear.

The whole experience is like reading in a lift with everybody around looking over my shoulder. I don’t like it.

I quickly uninstalled me.dium for these reasons:

1. Web surfing for me is a private matter.

2. I certainly don’t want people I don’t know see what I am browsing on the web.