Ensure that you're comfortable with the exchange of data for Fitbit's service
I think about my body a lot. I think about how it feels, how to make it feel better, what parts hurt, what I’m putting into it, how it’s sleeping, how much it weighs, how tall it is, whether or not it’s going to get Covid-19, how to treat it better…you get the idea.
And as someone who thinks about their body a lot, I’ve chosen to use a Fitbit — specifically, a Fitbit Inspire HR — to help me understand it. But it wasn’t until I started this What Does the Internet Know About Me? series that I realized that while the Fitbit gives me a lot of information about myself, I don’t actually know what it knows about me.
What Fitbit tracks
Let’s start with the obvious: The purpose of a Fitbit is to help you track your health in various ways. Users can customize what they want to track. I’m tracking:
Sleep: When and how much
Heart rate: Resting; 24/7 tracking
Steps: Per day and per hour
Weight: Including weight change
Food: Calories in; food eaten
Exercise: What I do, when I do it, how much I do it, and what I do the most
Friends: I’m only connected to my older brother (who always beats me in step count) but users can connect their contacts, Facebook, email, or search by username
Device: Which one I have; which hand I wear it on
On the less obvious side of things, the Fitbit also knows:
When I wake up and go to bed: Through silent alarms and sleep ..
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