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As someone who falls in the 25-34 age bracket, lives in a large city and goes out a lot, I feel like I am “supposed” to be using Foursquare. While I generally enjoy using new social media tools, I just can’t get into this one. People unfamiliar with it call Twitter disdained banality. But Foursquare seems to be that even more. A rather content-less, competitive stream of places where people have gone, mostly to consume stuff. Here are the reasons I’m not hopping on the Foursquare train right now:

1. The number of users in Miami is growing, but the service has still not seen widespread adoption.
2. I don’t want to know when people go home. Seriously! I’ve seen some people on Facebook (who have their Foursquare accounts linked to their status updates), “check-in” every time they go home, via some cutesy name given to their crappy apartment or house or whatever.
3. There’s that whole naysayer argument of “OMG! IF YOU USE FOURSQUARE YOU ARE SHOWING YOU’RE NOT HOME AND THEN PEOPLE CAN ROB YOU,” but I don’t buy that. Still, the general lack of privacy is worth mentioning. Nothing is worse than Blippy though, the site that tracks your credit card charges.
4. I love when I see people have “checked-in” somewhere late at night, and then have an excuse why they can’t get something done the next day. Really bad if you have one of these old-fashioned “full-time jobs” and need to take a “sick day” but have supervisors/clients/whatever who are “internet-savvy.
5. If you check-in at the laundromat/fast food joint/anywhere else prosaic like that, and think people care — get some hobbies.