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I can't help but feel that releasing Swarm was akin to giving someone a lateral "promotion" within an org to remove them from a space you don't want them in any
by eldude 11y ago
I can't help but feel that releasing Swarm was akin to giving someone a lateral "promotion" within an org to remove them from a space you don't want them in any longer, like Milton being moved into the basement in Office Space. They wanted to pivot, but with check-in so core to their identity, they had to move it to the basement so the rest of the core app could flourish.
Does anyone here actively use Swarm or any other Ambient Social Network? Why & what is your take? Like the various other Ambient Social Networking apps that came before it (Highlight, Sonar, Banjo), it would seem to suffer from a severe chicken and egg problem.
- nmcfarl 11y agoI use swarm, and the reason I use it is timehop. The ambient social networking is a side benefit, that ramped up following my adoption of foursquare, and is slowly tailing off as everyone drops swarm. It's nice as a source of real time recommendations from people you trust, and as a source of small talk, however it's not that important to me. But tracking myself from a year ago is generally rewarding.
- makeset 11y agoI've been trying to use Swarm because I have friends who do, but the interface is so atrociously bad, they should fire that designer and sue for damages. Months later I still have no fucking idea which icon does what, I just tap random things until something happens. And it doesn't allow private check-ins, so it discourages me from checking-in somewhere unless I want to broadcast it to all of my friends. Do they want my data or not?