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Will you become mayor of BART? Now it's possible with BART becoming the first major transit agency to partner with Foursquare, the social media thingy where you check-in at certain locales to gain points and bragging rights.
Well, OK, Bart stations already have mayors, but...maybe you could be mayor of the entire system? At least now it will be worth your while to try landed the coveted position. According to BART, "Foursquare will offer a BART-themed badge that can be unlocked by regular riders of BART, which provides train service in the San Francisco Bay Area. BART will award $25 promotional tickets each month for the next three months to riders chosen at random from all the riders who have logged Foursquare check-ins at BART stations, starting in November."
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Wait, now I have to watch my friends check in every time their train pulls into a station? That won't get annoying.
Everyone will try it at least once, but I think after 3 or 4 rapidfire check-ins the Foursquare app will lecture you for "cheating" and stop taking you seriously for a few hours.
Or so I, uh, heard.
I know I'm totally old and behind the times and everything, but I cannot for the life of me understand why you'd want to constantly broadcast your location to a disinterested public. I mean, it would be great for stalkers, but why do I need to know that someone is at the 24th and Mission BART station? Who the fuck cares?
Don't even get me started on that "Blahblah has displaced Blahblah as the Mayor of the Mall" or whatever.
I think i just read in Gawker that the installed base of foursquare users is like 60,000. It's amazing how much attention it gets.
Reading about it in Gawker is really the extent of the attention. Nobody I know has heard of it or used it.
Angrybat: I too was a skeptic at first. Then i started using it, and I have to say it's extremely addictive and fun. And you don't have to broadcast your whereabouts every time you checkin. For me it's more about earning badges, mayorships, and points. More of a game than a social network, but still a weird mashup of both.
In concept Foursquare is a fun social networking game. In reality it turns into a game of "Calm down and try not to chuck my 2G iPhone into the nearest storm drain due to AT&Ts crappy data network." Other than that, it's just super.
What are the walls in Dalva made out of that AT&T's signal can't seem to penetrate? Everytime I go there, my bars go down to zero.
All part of their Plan. I can't really get into it. If you're in there and you see metal bars start to descend over the windows, run.