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What FourSquare needs to do to fend off Facebook
- brk 16y agoThis has some well thought out points, but the headline is a little misleading. Facebook could implement these same ideas (none are patentable) to "fend off" Foursquare. There is nothing here that would really be a blocker to Facebook growing their check-in feature. IMO, one of the benefits of Foursquare is that it is independent of Facebook and can be slightly more anonymous. There are concerns and websites like pleaserobme.com that call attention to the dangers of Social Media oversharing. Foursquare should, IMO, think about ways to make the game both FUN and SAFE, perhaps things like delayed check-in postings, or options to show certain check-in data to certain groups or subsets of your "Friends".