Except that I don't get Foursquare. I think I got the gist of it, but I don't get the appeal. It might have something to do with my not having a smart phone to begin with...
Which begs the question: how many Malaysians are on Foursquare anyway? I get that it's easy to check in with Twitter and also with Facebook, but it's also as creepy as activating the geolocation thing on Twitter. (Last I heard there's an event going on in conjunction with foursquare day...)
The exploration aspect of foursquare is useful if you're curious about what's in one's own backyard, but there are other ways of finding these things out.
As far as safety is concerned (for the ladies), one could always "check in" on the way out and not have to deal with creeps. The game aspect (the badges, mayorship, etc) is just too much for me - I don't even like telling people where I go or where I am, let alone tell random strangers on the internet by checking into places. It'd be great if you have enough friends on these sites to justify it, but I don't even have that many IRL friends on Twitter, let alone the geolocation sites :P
Because of the popularity of foursquare and Gowalla and the rest of it, there's also a site called Please Rob Me, which featured tweets from people checking in to places, meaning that their homes are empty and ripe for the pickings. It wasn't supposed to be malicious - the point was the danger of oversharing things like this online. [It doesn't anymore, but the idea was hilarious]
The exploration aspect of foursquare is useful if you're curious about what's in one's own backyard, but there are other ways of finding these things out.
As far as safety is concerned (for the ladies), one could always "check in" on the way out and not have to deal with creeps. The game aspect (the badges, mayorship, etc) is just too much for me - I don't even like telling people where I go or where I am, let alone tell random strangers on the internet by checking into places. It'd be great if you have enough friends on these sites to justify it, but I don't even have that many IRL friends on Twitter, let alone the geolocation sites :P
Because of the popularity of foursquare and Gowalla and the rest of it, there's also a site called Please Rob Me, which featured tweets from people checking in to places, meaning that their homes are empty and ripe for the pickings. It wasn't supposed to be malicious - the point was the danger of oversharing things like this online. [It doesn't anymore, but the idea was hilarious]
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