June 2009 Weddings
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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
FourSquare
Can someone explain this website/phone app to me?
Re: FourSquare
I don't use it myself, but my understanding is that it broadcasts your location (at your command) to everyone who "follows" you. If you go to one place frequently, you can earn "badges" or become the "mayor" of that place. The advantage I see is that if your friends follow you, they can know where you are and meet you there.
The obvious disadvantages are that stalkers and creeps can also know where you are at all times and follow you/attack you, and robbers and thieves can know when you're not home and how far away you are for clear home invasions, etc. For these reasons, I don't see myself ever using it.
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I don't use it, but 2 of my good friends do. Basically it started as a social networking tool for bars, but it took off from there. Like Lark said, if you go to a place often you can get different badges, etc. I had a friend explain it to me, because the whole concept of it seems so lame. He gave me a pretty good example: Friend posts that he is at Best Buy shopping, I see what he's posted and remember it's another friend's bday and I have to get them a gift certificate or something. I can easily call up friend (assuming he lives near me or I see him a lot) and ask him to pick me up the gift certificate.
I suppose an example like that works, but playing devil's advocate, I asked if that's actually ever happened and obviously it hadn't. Not enough people use it yet that you can actually meet up with friends. The way I look at it is, if you're that great of friends with someone and want to hang out, you're probably going to know where or what they're doing anyway.
I call it rape-square.