Foursquare friends, I’m glad to report that as a holiday, Foursquare Day has finally arrived! Certainly, being added to the Wikipedia Unofficial Observances page was nice, but that was not nearly as legitimizing as what happened today!
What happened? Well in a nutshell, Time NewsFeeed feels that Foursquare Day is a big enough holiday to deem “lame.” Check it out here.
Of course, it would be possible for us to be indignant – angry, even – at being called lame. It would also be possible to take the snide, “Time is so out of touch that we wouldn’t want to be considered cool by them” attitude. Or even, “Time just included the ultra popular Foursquare Day in the mix to try to drive traffic because, let’s face it, no one really reads Time anyway.” But we are” glasses-half-full” kind of folks, so we won’t got there.
Instead, let’s take a look at the positive things that Time has to say:
- “Social media darling-of-the-moment Foursquare”
- “Does it really need a cutesy holiday too? Apparently so.”
- “On April 16…. thousands came together…..”
- “to celebrate by “checking in” to local locations through the Foursquare service.”
- “… this homegrown affection is part of the reason the service is so popular.”
- “Foursquare now has north of two million members.”
Joran Slane
Valentine’s Day? Boss’ Day? At least you’re in good company.
Sarah D.
Obviously no one from Time went to a Foursquare Day party. I can’t speak for all of them, but New York was the anthesis of lame, and by all accounts Tampa was pretty rockin’, too.
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