FOUR SQUARE

I know what you’re thinking:

But no,  I’m talking FourSquare.com. If you’re unfamiliar – here’s the Q+DD:

In concept, it’s SO me. It’s a tool which has a goal of keeping track of where you’re going and where you’re friends are going while encouraging you to branch out of your little world and explore your own city.
Whenever you go to a new place, (and in my case, when you remember!) you tell Four Square where you are.  You just add an application to your cell which tracks you to find where you are and what’s near you via GPS in your phone.  When you tell Four Square where you are, this is called “checking in” and Greg is obsessed. I always get super excited when I “check in” before he does (however, he says that when I do it from the parking lot or the valet, I’m cheating.  Whatever.  A win’s a win.)

LK on Four Square

Let’s take Saturday, for example, because you already know everywhere I went AND I was being good about checking in:

Saturday April 17, 2010
11:46 PM   Chez Lauren and Olive
9:46 PM Treehouse Restaurant & Pub
6:02 PM  Sweetwater 420 Festival
3:32 PM  Dogwood Festival
2:30 PM Piedmont Park
12:42 PM Zoe’s Kitchen
11:12 AM  Atlanta Kick

So there are 3 main things about Foursquare that interest me.

1.    POINTS. I don’t care what they’re for, when there are points involved, all I know is that I want a lot of them.   Which is good because Foursquare has an elaborate point system that means NOTHING.  They’re taking suggestions here

2.   Mayorship – if you “check in” the MOST at a location, you are the mayor. A crown appears beside your name.  I don’t think that I need to explain the appeal any further.  I am currently the mayor of Lily’s Nail and Spa, The Ansley Park Playhouse, my home (Chez Lauren and Olive) and my office.  Woot.  Apparently, you can be rewarded for mayorship – at Fresh 2 Order, your meal is 1/2 off if you are the current Mayor! Note:  we are not offering any such deals at Chez Lauren and Olive.

3.    Badges – you get badges for various things.  They’re like your Foursquare Flair.

Flair!

You get one for being a newbie so your page isn’t naked, but there are others.  Like the Crunked badge…
…you get that if you go 4+ stops in a night.

Or the “bender” badge…

…which you get for going out 4/nights in a row.  I got mine at Target. Holy anticlimactic, Batman.

Oh!  Or the school night badge…

….which I earned when my wakeup time for the gym was SO early that Foursquare thought I was still out from the night before.

Listen, I don’t really “get it” either, but I didn’t “get” Twitter at first and now I’m hooked.   AND I am here to tell you that Greg got a free gelato at Pizzeria Vente tonight:  true story. It’s a great way for businesses to reward their customers.

More importantly, this is my official request that you guys participate because my Foursquare is Classic Sad-no-friends-girl-ish:

Foursquare Friends: 8  (only 5 are active and 2 are Greg and Mark.)

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?

Sign up and be my friend, ok?  OK.
I’ll leave you with this funny little snippit:

xx, L

PS follow Atlanta Four Square on Twitter: @4SqATL