I, along with a few of my colleagues and another guy in my building that I’ve actually never met, have been partaking in a little Foursquare action over the last several months, and I have to say my biggest motivation is that I want to accumulate more points than them — oh, and to remain Mayor of Fitting Group! This is actually hard for this new mom to do; I just don’t get out that much anymore.

Since launching a year ago, the blogosphere has been a flutter with discussions on the true value of Foursquare as the next social media outlet and about how creepy it is that people are actually identifying their locations to the world. (Come on, admit it! You have friends on Facebook and followers on Twitter that you don’t know well enough to inform them of where you are, or more importantly where you are not — @home!)

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