Super strange ask, but I was hoping you could give me advice/ your opinion based on your ummm credentials! :
My boyfriend plans on proposing soon ♡
But after he does he wants to get me microchiped like you would a dog. They sell DIY kits for GPS chips on Amazon, and I’m totally down to let him, but I was wondering if you could see any reason that would be a bad idea. Medically or otherwise ☆
First, congratulations!
As for the topic at hand:
- I don’t object to the concept of embedding a tracker in a girl. But…
- I’d want to hear from a medical professional that the chip and delivery system aren’t going to cause infections.
- I would also point out that those aren’t “GPS chips”. They’re RFID chips, which are completely different things.
- A GPS tracker reads data received from satellites in geosynchronous orbit to determine your position on the planet’s surface, a process that requires battery power, an antenna, and to be practically useful, some sort of wireless (Bluetooth/Wifi) hardware to broadcast that location. GPS is not at the “off-the-shelf injectables” stage of development yet.
- An RFID chip is much simpler… it transmits a chip-specific number to a reader device when said device is brought within a few inches of the chip. It doesn’t track location in any way, and is in fact only of use when you’re in the same room with it, because it’s basically just a subdermal version of a barcode tattoo. RFID establishes identity, not location… it answers the question “who is this bitch?”, not “where is this bitch?”
- An AirTag —and to a more limited extent, a Tile— exists between the extremes of GPS and RFID. An AT doesn’t track location by itself, but it uses Bluetooth and the vast Find My network to notify the AT’s owner when the tag was last within signal range of anyone’s iPhone. And you definitely can’t inject it.
I’m hoping your guy already knows all of this, and you’re simply confused about what he’s planning. Or he’s calling it a “GPS chip” to gaslight you into thinking you’re being tracked, and I’ve now ruined his fun. (I’m a ruiner. I ruin things.)
All that aside: unless you’re a model whose skin needs to be kept pristine, I’d say you’re better off getting a little QR code inked on your ankle and calling it a day.