Look, it’s no big secret that I love Foursquare. Hell, I was even featured in a Metromix article for scoring the semi-elusive Pizzaiolo badge. But it’s my belief that some people don’t have a lot of restraint, and a feel a need to lame it up on FourSquare.
Take this, a recent feed of someone on my friends list. Yeah, s/he’s a nice person, but GOOD LORD. All of your recent check-ins are are SUBWAY STATIONS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
What does checking into a subway station actually tell anybody? In a few minutes, you’ll be on a moving car headed toward another destination. In theory, nobody can really meet up with you at a subway station unless they meet you within 5 to 7 minutes of your check-in. Does anybody really need to know that you’re about to board a Q train?
Furthermore, most of these are UNDERGROUND, which makes this display of annoyance even more impressive. Can you imagine coming up from subterranean New York City, and the only thing you can think about is checking in on Foursquare to all the subway stops you’ve hit on your journey? UGH.
Ultimately, I think it sucks - because people who are annoying on new services like this are detrimental to potential new users. Because they don’t want to become as annoying as that guy.
This isn’t my #1 reason for not using Foursquare, but it is sort of pointless. And I can’t think of a station of which I’d really want to be mayor. (Also not my #1 reason.)
