The FourSquare Experiment

Posted on | February 13, 2010 | No Comments

Four Square is a relatively new local social media application. I’ve been on FourSquare for a few months now and really haven’t found the purpose besides pissing off my girlfriend from constantly updating my location from my iPhone. So I haven’t really been a full fledged user of the social media application.

To be fair I will say I was an active user of BrightKite until I got bored with that as well. I will say I like Bright Kite’s ability to upload images from your locations. But the applications are pretty close to the same for me. They update my twitter account and allows internet stalkers to keep tabs on me. I think the problem is none of my friends utilize these local social media services. Even the internet gurus out there haven’t really embraced local social media.

So I’m going to (or should say have been) trying to check in to every place I’ve visited during the month of February. This far I’ve received 1 new friend, a new mayorship and a badge. But I’m going to embrace the application. It will be checked more frequently then my facebook page. At the end of the month, I’ll take inventory of what I’ve accomplished and whether it was worth it or not.

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