I just recently hopped on the great fun network of Foursquare. As many of you know I am currently in Alicante, Spain doing my study abroad requirements for my International Business Major. This causes a lot of downsides for many US based social media apps. The reason for this taking Foursquare as an example; is that Foursquare focuses on what I belive are the main social media cities of the US, leaving out not only those who are out of those areas with no fun, but also those around the world. At the same time, I know that if I were in the US I would thoroughly enjoy the benefits this new site has to offer.
BrightKite meets Monopoly
Here’s my take – Foursquare turns BrightKite into an interesting competitive game, almost like Monopoly, just without all the banker stuff.
The more you check into different places, outside of work (bars, pubs, comedy clubs, etc.) the more “points” you get allowing you to become the mayor of an area, or to give you badges (achievements).
This is an addictive way to get people going on their competitive nature as Jeff Cohen(@dgtlpapercuts) mentioned to me earlier today – “Competitive nature makes it addictive.” Which is phenomenal it will get people moving and FAST on this new network!
Caught at Work?
Just a quick blurb on this: People WILL use this at work, lose producitvity, and will most likely feel the repercussions of this sooner or later down the road.
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