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You can do all kinds of amazing things which I can’t. You can type out a text message in less than ten minutes. You can play all kinds of awesome games with the touch screen. You can browse the interweb, get GPS directions to that out-of-the-way brothel you’ve heard great things about, and perhaps best of all it will impress girls who would otherwise make fun of your 1992 Cutlass Supreme.
And yes, thanks to Foursquare you can also inform the world that you’re at your mother’s house. You can even become mayor there! It’s not like your mom is going to challenge you. She’s still trying to figure out the answering machine you bought her for Christmas 10 years ago.
When I first heard about Foursquare I thought it was awesome. It’s a great way to meet up with people and earn achievement points which we video game nerds so covet.
But then it came to Cincinnati. And then it took over my Twitter feed.
I’m so glad that you’re at the coffee shop.
I’m proud that you unlocked the “newbie” badge.
I’m astounded that you ousted so-and-so as mayor of the overpriced martini bar where you like to be noticed. I thought for sure there would be a recount, and I hope you usher in the reforms you promised during the campaign.
I just don’t need you to tell me about it. Constantly. As in every 30 minutes on Twitter.
I’m going to go play the real four square now. Who’s with me?
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I agree that there is too much twitter spam from Foursquare by default, but once you go in and tell it to stop bothering all the nice people that follow you it isn’t as bad.
I still think Twitter clients should allow you to blacklist certain words/phrases on your local end, allowing you to filter out tweets on the fly…
I love foursquare…but I can totally see your point. I’d love to see Twitter allow 3rd party developers write code that will allow you to filter what goes into your feed. Why should your friend have all the power regarding what they push to you? I like following the people I follow…but there are certain times I wish I could mute them. Services like brizzly do a good job of doing this…but I don’t want to be restricted to the web client.
Personally I am not fond of using geolocation constantly. All you need is one net savvy criminal to follow your feed and he knows when you are not home and robbery is easy.
FourSquare has certainly consumed the majority of the local twitter-sphere, pointing up the desperate need for the ability to block notification from apps. Facebook has it, although its hardly intuitive to many.
And BTW, I’m an iPhone geek and I still share your opinion here.
Loki, CincyVoices Founder
I’m a total badass at the playground game of FourSquare. There should be a tournament.
No smartphones allowed.
I’m guity as charged regarding excessive 4sq tweeting (which I’ve since disabled.) I do like the idea and application of venue sharing. I also use Wertago, which is great for fiding new places – especially if you’re in a new town. Big difference with Wertago is that all venues are verified by live people, and the venues can control content, like events, etc.
i didn’t know dudes used twitter?
Do dudes use Twitter? Of course! After a long day, I like to come home, run a bath, get some candles going and fire up my laptop to follow all the latest Twilight gossip on Twitter.
Wow, I thought this artoicle was going to be about the playground game, Four Square. I don’t even know what this article is talking about, and I love computers, cell phones, twitter, Twilight . . . uh, wait, I mean ULTIMATE FIGHTING DEATHMATCH MIXED MARTIAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS!