A Beginner's Guide to Foursquare.

Where are you? Where did you go last night? Do you know anything about this place? All of these questions can be answered by a small Social Networking application called Foursquare. If you are unfamiliar with Foursquare and have a smartphone, see this as an introduction to the newest Social Networking application that is grabbing people's attention. Foursquare just released it's latest application for the Blackberry and this will hopefully make it popular as the newest Social networking application continues to gain steam. For those of you unfamiliar with Foursquare you can simply go to Foursquare.com or continue reading for a quick tutorial. Once you have foursquare downloaded on to your mobile device, you simply go to a "venue" and check in, and write a review, or even try and the become mayor of that particular location. Foursquare uses a unique badge system, that user's of the application win under various circumstances. The person who most often visits a particular location becomes the "Mayor." The "Mayor" badge is the most prestigious badge however, there are a variety of other badges to win including Newbie, Local and even Crunked and Bender. But feel free to read the entire list at Foursquare.Com. Foursquare also offers a variety of solutions, for the regular social networker. Feel free to shout to your friends and follow them as you like, as you try and outrace them to become "Mayor" of your favorite hot spot. Now beyond the fact that it's fun to be a "Mayor" Foursquare has a variety of things that make it fun and unique. You can instantly write a tip for any visitors to a particular venue and you can also find the address to help better describe your location to a friend. Though few companies have yet, to truly adapt Foursquare into their marketing campaign many venues here in Raleigh are already experimenting with it by offering their "Mayors" free coffee and other small gifts. Is Foursquare for you? Well unless your a homebody and plan on sitting at home the rest of your life. I definitely recommend getting Foursquare for your next night on the town.