Before leaving for work, I shouted a quick good morning to my fine friends on foursquare. I like to send a shout every now and then that is not connected with a check-in or shared with Twitter or Facebook. To me, the foursquare shout is under-utilized. I think the isolated shout is important because it emphasizes that foursquare is not just a subset of Twitter or Facebook crowd- it is its own community.
But while I was keying in my shout, I had trouble finding the word after “good morning.” And thought, “Is there a universal term for a person who uses foursquare? Just what do we call each other?”
So here are some things that ran through my mind:
- foursquare user
- check-in-er
- foursquare member
- foursquare fan
- foursquare friend
- foursquarer
- checker-in
While “foursquare user” is probably the most proper, and “foursquare fan” the most fun, I went with “4sq-er” because it was it was, um, awkward and drew attention to itself.
I’m wondering what other terms and 4sq slang people use to refer to each other. So I now turn the question to the foursquare community itself:
What word do YOU use describe other people who use foursquare?
Leave your answer in the comments, and we’ll tally the responses and try to come to some consensus.
Coaster
4Squares
Nick Rovisa
I always refer to myself as a “Foursquarer”
Spam
At some point, I decided to call the entire community of foursquare users the “foursquad”.
(In fact, I loved the term so much, I registered foursquad.com…but there’s nothing to see there yet, as it’s still under development.)
Spam
Founder of Foursquare Baltimore
http://twitter.com/4sqBmore
Nathan Bonilla-Warford, OD
@Spam
“foursquad”
AWESOME! I love it! That is what I’m going to use from now on! Get that site up, my friend. That is catchy!
-Nate
dante
4whores
4sqNorway
I slightly bigger issue for me is what to call a checkin when you need multiple checkins to get the special.
Better explained; in my specials table for Norway I use these tags:
“Checkin” special
“Mayor” special
but a
“Numbered checkin” is missing. but what to call this numbered checkin? 😦
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Aaron Friedman
I call them “foursquarers”…see: http://uberlocation.com/applications/foursquare-2-0-for-iphone-released
DONGWOOK LEE (이동욱)
how about hi there? People are always in some place, so calling them ‘there’ is appropriate. in Korean we call people that we don’t know ‘저기요’ ‘jeogiyo’ which means exactly ‘hi there’.