Ari Herzog

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Why I Deleted My Foursquare Account

Ari Herzog

I saw that you checked in there on Foursquare, Shea,” he said. I’ve read articles about burglaries and stalking thanks to Foursquare, but because I only occasionally link my check-ins with tweets, I figured I was being responsible. You probably shouldn’t be telling people where you are on Foursquare, should you, Shea?”

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Guess Who is Back on Foursquare

Ari Herzog

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. My past caught up with me.

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How My Article on Quitting Foursquare Caused a 5500% Spike in Blog Traffic in 1 Day

Ari Herzog

Who could predict the rationale for deleting my Foursquare account would cause the largest spike in this blog’s history of daily readership? You can see the Foursquare article is responsible for the mountain. Keep in mind that these are overall blog visitors, not specific to the Foursquare article. Thursday – 650.

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Follow Me, Friend Me, Do Me Wherever

Ari Herzog

What this means is if we’re friends on the site, either you’re appearing in the news feed or you’re not, depending how strongly you care about me. When you consider some people share Facebook links on Twitter and others share Twitter links on Pinterest, each site is not its own ecosystem anymore. Thanks for reading.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

My first podcast, audio interviews/explorations of Singapore combined with music, appeared on a music site run by Cosa Nostra. A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing. Foursquare? Another friend, Dinnertube , started posting videos on Youtube in 2006.

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Feature Friday: Is Social Networking Making Us Less Social?

Ari Herzog

Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, LinkedIn, MySpace, Foursquare… These are examples of social networking sites, but you knew that. Do social networking sites cause you to go out less? The following is a feature article by Christopher Roberts. However, have you ever thought of the impact they have on you? Of course you are!

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Facebook LinkedIn Twitter in 2013

Ari Herzog

Of the three largest social networking sites in the United States, I plan to use Facebook the most, LinkedIn the second-most, and Twitter the least. I continue to use Foursquare, Instagram, Pinterest, Flickr, Yelp, and other platforms. That is the order of my priorities in 2013. Facebook in 2013. Concluding Thoughts.

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