Foursquare recently announced a special “universities edition,” and Stanford is among the company’s first 20 college partners trying to facilitate social connections and event publicity on campus.
The mobile-phone social networking application allows users to update their physical locations by “checking in” at events and addresses. By syncing with other social networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter, Foursquare lets its users track their friends’ favorite campus landmarks.
The idea behind Stanford’s Foursquare page is that campus-specific information should help students and faculty feel more connected socially by giving them better access to information about events and places. Once a user has “checked in” to a location, he or she can write reviews and leave insider tips for other users to see, creating a collaborative, user-modified review book.
But will students use it?
Some say other social-networking sites hold more unique and important socializing features.
“I would try out the application to look at different events on campus and to find out about food places more as an information resource than for social networking,” explained Rebecca Amato ’14, who recently downloaded Foursquare on her iPhone. “I would look to other social networking sites like Facebook to feel connected.”
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