Jay Allen

  • Nintendo’s Miitomo Is Designed For Oversharing, Which Is Creepy

    Nintendo’s Miitomo Is Designed For Oversharing, Which Is Creepy

    Miitomo, Nintendo’s sophisticated new smartphone app, is a hybrid of free-to-play game and social network. By combining aspects of each, it becomes a disarming information gathering project. On its face, it makes a game of asking trivia questions about your friends and shares the answers with you. Under the surface, it uses the framing and…