Here's the reply that I tried posting but didn't see show up. It may have gone into moderation for approval. -- Bravo. I went through this, too, when I got a

Here's the reply that I tried posting but didn't see show up. It may have gone into moderation for approval. -- Bravo. I went through this, too, when I got a surprise message from Foursquare saying, "You've been unseated as the mayor of such-and-such!" Really, who cares? I haven't checked in at all since I realized that Foursquare makes it into a competition. Don't even get me started on Parallel Kingdom. I nearly lost a friend to that game. What I liked about Dodgeball was that it gave me a kind of third eye when going to a venue I hadn't been to before. I was able to go to the Dodgeball website with my phone, see the photos of people who had checked in at that particular venue and approach them since they seemed to know more about the venue than I did and they practically invited these kinds of interactions by being users of Dogdeball. That was in 2000, I think, and I used it until Google bought the site. They were kind enough to give everyone 2 weeks to delete their accounts before transferring everything to Google's servers. I still have privacy concerns with these kinds of sites, but now I have no problem broadcasting my location if I'm at a public event that's been announced somewhere else already. Would you continue using Foursquare if it didn't have competitive and teritorial gameplay?