If you could narrow it down to two words, for most of us it would apparently be — you’re boring:
New research that makes creative use of sensitive location-tracking data from 100,000 cellphones in Europe suggests that most people can be found in one of just a few locations at any time, and that they do not generally go far from home.
“Individuals display significant regularity, because they return to a few highly frequented locations, such as home or work,” the researchers found.
As the report admits, this isn’t an entirely surprising conclusion, but it does make one wonder what other, less benign uses, data like this could be put to.
