Ari Herzog
JUNE 1, 2012
Geolocation applications allow you to share your location with other people and associate that location to restaurants, events, and other real-world venues. This privacy intrusion is why I deleted my Foursquare account two years ago. I saw you checked in on Foursquare as I just did.” I’m Ari.
Ari Herzog
DECEMBER 18, 2011
Citing privacy concerns and not wanting strangers to know where I was every moment I checked in to a location, I deleted my Foursquare account 14 months ago. Forrester Research recently surveyed 37,000 mobile users and in its report issued this month, a mere 2% of those users had Foursquare accounts. Was the second camp right?
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Socialized
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
Location-based services — applications that “know” where you are and can use that information to connect you with people, places and things — are one of the hot new classes of social media applications. That doesn’t mean all of these phones will run Foursquare , Brightkite or any other popular location-based application.
Sherrilynne Starkie
JUNE 22, 2013
And, Street Bump is a mobile application that lets people improve their own neighbourhoods. But there are privacy and data ownership issues.”. With Foursquare, a user could look to find people who are close by, like a woman in a nearby bar for instance. Luckily, this data integration feature has now been disabled by Foursquare.
Mindjumpers
AUGUST 19, 2010
Foursquare has been exploding in number of users the last year or so, but still doesn’t reach anywhere near the amount of users that are using Facebook. When to go to the application on your mobile, you open Facebook Places and according to where you are, the application will show a list of places near you. How does Places work?
Mindjumpers
AUGUST 19, 2010
Foursquare has been exploding in number of users the last year or so, but still doesn’t reach anywhere near the amount of users that are using Facebook. When to go to the application on your mobile, you open Facebook Places and according to where you are, the application will show a list of places near you. How does Places work?
Saying It Social
JUNE 3, 2010
Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How to Set Your Facebook Privacy Settings If You Don’t Want Your Personal Profile Searchable Why would you want to do this? In the upper right hand corner click on Account>Privacy Settings.
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