[blacklion]

> How useful or convenient tech services are tends to correlate strongly with how close to SF Bay area your life is.

Exactly rule we've deduced with my wife in our trips in South-East Asia and out living in Russia.

Fun story:

In the middle of nowhere in Myanmar we'd stopped to eat in roadside shack (we'd travelled by motorcycle). Food was delicious, and my wife looked up Google Maps while we waited for ordered second dish. To our surprise, this shack was listed on GMaps. We wrote good review, why not? Google Map asks several additional questions, like «Is this place popular among the college crowd» and «Is this place wheelchair-accessible». Nearest college is about 500km to this place, 0.01% of children go to college, and wheelchairs, of course, could be pushed to this shack, as it has ground floor. I mean, no floor at all. It was very funny indeed.

But most of the time same service behavior is not funny, but irritating.