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Re:Foursquare Merges with Factual by chipotle_coyote on Monday April 06, 2020 @05:20PM (#22798012)
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.

Re:Foursquare Merges with Factual by mastre_ on Monday April 06, 2020 @06:58PM (#22798709)
> 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.

Re:Foursquare Merges with Factual by kelnos on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @01:56AM (#22800665)
I hadn't thought about that, but my experience is the same: no discernible changes to my Swarm friends in years.
Re:Foursquare Merges with Factual by arkanciscan on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @11:31AM (#22804126)
Same 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.
Re:Foursquare Merges with Factual by _curious_ on Monday April 06, 2020 @11:36PM (#22800145)
Sounds like a solution to a first world problem, no wonder they've become a bygone.