Check-In apps? FourSquare, Gowalla. Lame or Awesome?

[Rman]

I know Cohen hates them.  But what's the general EB consensus on this things?  I made the mistake of tying them to my Facebook/Twitter account.  Not a good idea.  But they have actually helped me try more things and the meta game with the badges is kinda cool.  Right?

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[CajoleJuice]

Didn't Cohen hate Twitter at one point? lolz

[Rman]

I think that was Patel and Prole.

[CajoleJuice]

Ah yeah, probably. And I guess I don't have a problem with it. I wouldn't have use for it, but I can see people in metropolitan areas that like broadcasting their every move to the world liking it. Especially since there are badges.

[Rman]

Yeah.  I turned off broadcasting.  I didn't want to sound like major tool to my Twitter/FB people.  But I like because it becomes an urban playlist of sorts for your favorite hotspots.  The badges also encourage you to try new things.

[M3wThr33]

Gowalla is pretty bad. Their portable app doesn't allow searching by names and a lot of other parts of it are lacking. The big draw of Gowalla is the mini-geocaching added. Even devs are bitching because their API fucking sucks.
Foursquare is really all you need to invest in.

[cloudwalking]

these were a fad here like 4 months ago, i got bored of them pretty quickly.

[Donono]

Yeah I used Foursquare for like two hours and then never again.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I'm afraid it'll just confirm my suspicion that nobody finds me worth bothering to stalk and harass.

[tiesto]

My friends are all hooked on it, and they're trying to get me to buy a Blackberry and participate... I don't feel like I need to broadcast to the world where I am at all times.

[Beezy]

A couple of my friends are on foursquare. I don't think I go out enough to use it.