I have been given this fitbit for my 61st birthday, May 10, 2023. I want to like it. I want to get value out of this expensive gift. I am really trying here.
Unfortunately, I am failing miserably. I hate it so much that after 3 days I am beginning to feel sick with anger. Every interaction with it is unpleasant.
It is uncomfortable. It just is.
It wants to GPS track me, and it pesters me incessantly about that. It is apparently incapable of taking no for an answer. I swear to dog, for that alone I could pound it into smithereens with an 8 lb sledge.
It is worse than useless for extracting timely information. It's collecting data about my O2 levels, so why is it so squirrelly about surrendering this information? It appears incapable of surrendering the time of day or my heart rate when I am exercising. Seriously? How annoying is that?
I don't think it's accurate about much of anything. It's data just isn't consistant with my own
observations about anything - from resting heart rate to sleep hours. The second night I owned it I did not wear it to bed, but it still "reported" obviously spurious "data." (1) How can I trust it on anything at that point.
It is supposed to come with 6 months free support, yet it demanded credit card data on the app. I gave the fitbit app my credit card data, but it still demands payment information several times a day, every day. We're only 3 days into this nightmare experiment, it has my payment data already, and I am supposed to get 6 months support free of charge. Not OK!
It wants to know how I feel. I feel angry. Actually, I am experiencing an increasingly unhealthy level of anger. Before this "gift" entered my life, didn't know how bad an anger management problem could become. It's getting pretty bad. I am trying very hard not to curse, scream and throw things. I am struggling not to take my feelings out on people and pets. I think this degree of rage is bad for my health.
(2) If anyone wants to share ideas on how a cranky Luddite can gain some degree of value from this gift, then I would appreciate those insights. I will try to get through a 6 week trial period, so I can honestly claim I gave it a fair trial.
After my 6 week trial period, I anticipate I will attempt to regift this. Alternatively, if my blood pressure continues to climb, I may regift it earlier. At that point I will need to de-register the device with the fitbit app so the next user can get full "value" from the device. (3) Has anyone else gone through this process? (4) How is deregistration/reregistration accomplished?
Thanks in Advance,
E. Conley
