LESSON 4. Mobile Applications

In this lesson we talk about how you’re going to use Foursquare most of the time—your mobile device. I cover the official apps and mobile website here. The apps that other people have created can have varying degrees of quality, so they are something you should use at your own risk.

Getting the Right App for Your Device

Now that you have your Foursquare account and a few friends, it’s time to start using Foursquare for real. If there’s one thing that I find odd about Foursquare it’s that Foursquare is the only social media tool/service that I know of where you can do less on the website through your computer than you can do on your mobile device. At first, this really, really didn’t make sense to me. Why can’t ...

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