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Drop it like it’s hot!
We were like scared school kids dropped by a newbie bus driver. FourSquare picked us up on some shady street corner where the others dropped us. Now, FourSquare seems like it is riding on its own bandwagon. FourSquare seems to want to lead us in a strong direction, after all the other iterations quiet down.

I’m gonna be honest, when all my friends were bugging me on Facebook and Twitter with their 4Square statuses, I was annoyed. Profoundly. Leave me alone! Give me a break! Not another buzz tool!? After some more social pressure (from my social media communities), I registered. Just to save my spot and reviewed a few spots. Maybe I am just grumpy. But as Michelle Blanc and Tom Webster say it beware of sharing your location with everyone on your social networks, if they can figure out where you live. And good stalkers can do that. Webster says he would use the application in an anti-social way, getting all the freebies from the store owners, but not sharing his location. He also talks about badge fatigue. True. How long can we be excited by a badge? And how many hours will I spend to get the “recognition”. None (for me), but my friends do. Still, his community must know via his badges. And they are cute. They are the equivalent of Hello Kitty’s for geeks, see a list of Foursquare badges from Tony Felice here. Continue reading →