Foursquare for New Users. Good and Bad Points and a Review of Privacy Settings

Foursquare for New Users

Foursquare for New Users. Good and Bad Points and a Review of Privacy Settings

Foursquare is a social networking site with a difference. Foursquare encourages people to discover their own regions as well as new places along with meeting friends. This social networking website rewards people who visit new places and makes friends. Users of Foursquare get points, win Mayor ships and get brooches for visiting old and new places of interest. You can also leave comments, tips and suggestions to other users who may visit the same location.

Foursquare is also a great site for business owners as they can keep their customers hooked to their venue by offering various discounts, competitions and give-away for their loyal customers who visit their venues often. The business owners can attract potential buyers by treating their Mayor's in special ways. Example: Offering complimentary drinks, half price meals and free store benefits. When the business owners offer Foursquare to their customers they can track the details about their venue and its performance. This can be done without wasting any time or money with the help of Foursquare control panel and software which is readily able on all smart phones and desktops.

Good points for Foursquare

Easy to find business contacts, friends and family.

Easy to search nearby places to meet with friends.

Search points of interest, get recommendations from other users.

Easy to track the whereabouts of your kids without disturbing their freedom.

The Bad Points of Foursquare

Before broadcasting your location you must check your privacy settings. Users might broadcast without checking the privacy settings, which can be dangerous.

It is risky to share too much of information. Especially personal information and location based information. Risky to talk to strangers.

Privacy Issues with Foursquare

Foursquare is a great tool when used as a virtual travel guide to find the places nearby that interest you. It is said that in order to achieve complete social network privacy one should not use any social networking websites. But that does not stop users from making use of social networking sites. There are millions of users of Foursquare worldwide. People like to have the fun which they get when they win points and badges.

Before joining Foursquare it is very important to know all the terms and conditions of using this social networking website. It is very necessary that you do not allow strangers into your trusted network. There is some privacy and security threats but only if you are not careful while using Foursquare. Or you choose to share to the whole world your location and personal information.

There are many users of Foursquare who are still ignorant about the privacy and security matters. Like other social networking sites, here too you will get several friend requests. But whom you want to choose to be your friend is entirely your call. It is good to ignore the friend requests if you don't know the person sending them. The Foursquare is a fun site and it should remain that way only for you. There are things that can be controlled only by users just by being a little bit more aware about the privacy settings found in your control panel. Written by www.CMather.com

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