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I still use it and I'm well over 30. I can't speak to your friends, but I like the history of where I've been. I love driving and finding new places -- at least
by chipotle_coyote 7y ago
I still use it and I'm well over 30. I can't speak to your friends, but I like the history of where I've been. I love driving and finding new places -- at least, back when things were open, remember when there were cafés and stuff? -- and, on the flip side, I (used to) go out to eat for most meals and could fall into regular patterns, and sometimes checking Swarm to remind me that, yes, I had been to such-and-such place twice already this month could kick me into trying something new.
Making the coins utterly useless irritates me, though, and I'm kind of surprised they dropped the whole notion of partnering with businesses to offer specials to regular customers they had in the pre-Swarm days. While I presume they pivoted into selling location data because the partnerships just didn't make them enough money, I'd hope the partnerships weren't losing them money, and I think they really drove usage.
- mastre_ 7y ago> but I like the history of where I've been This is kinda the deep down reason I still use it. I sort of passively compete with the friends that use it, especially when I'm traveling, since I get to check into a ton of new stuff. The list of friends that use it is _very_ static. It's been the same group for _years_ now, w/o a single new person (and I don't think anyone's dropped). We're not close friends either. All in all, it's a fascinating experience in that regard.
- kelnos 7y agoI hadn't thought about that, but my experience is the same: no discernible changes to my Swarm friends in years.
- arkanciscan 7y agoSame here. The Venn diagram of people I follow on Swarm and the people I've communicated with in the past five years doesn't overlap at all.
- _curious_ 7y agoSounds like a solution to a first world problem, no wonder they've become a bygone.