Foursquare now allows check-in with friends
At Foursquare they have always shown paying special attention to the user community , creating functions and adapting your application to the tastes, needs and suggestions of those who use it. And this time is no different. Both the Android and iPhone version of Foursquare now allows you to do Joint Check-ins to keep track of who have been together where An evolution of the mentions already enabled some time ago in this social network and that is now adjust even more to what the community wants.
And it is that in the Foursquare's official blog they affirm that 90 percent of the mentions are used to indicate who you are with when doing Check-in For example, “In Dany's birthday party”, “Drinking something with Carlos”, “Anniversary dinner with María”. Therefore, they have decided to create a special function that allows re Record the passage of a user and other contacts in the same place when they leave together. All this through an update for the two main mobile platforms of the moment.
Thus, it is already possible to Check-in for friends in a specific place with a few simple steps and without having to everyone worries about doing it individually.The process is integrated into the usual procedure of Check-in with a button called I”™m with”¦ (I'm with”¦). Clicking on it accesses the contact list of this social network, where you can easily add all the people who are with the user in that place. Something very similar to the mentions seen in the social network Twitter, but this time playing with space. After finishing, all that remains is to do Check-in as usual, being able to post a photo, put a description, etc.
This process causes the mentioned users to receive a notification on their respective terminals. This is a courtesy request to approve being mentioned in said publication by the user who has made the Check-in , thus being able to establish a certain level of privacy By accepting said notification, all users add a Check- in automatically, making the process faster and more comfortable, since all the work has been done by the user who has decided to mention and include the contents of the record.However, if the notification is answered no, will only be mentioned in the publication, in the usual way that it was being carried out.
This new feature has a couple more specifications. One is that if you Check-in before or after another friend creates a “community” record , only that of the user will be shown individual Also, if you do not want to be included and receive these notifications, there is an option in the Settings menu to conveniently disable this function.
In short, a new tool that, according to Foursquare, is created to spend less time with the mobile and more focused on fun and the company of being in the same place with friends.A rather peculiar philosophy when the usual trend in other social networks is create content so that users spend more time on them This new version of Foursquare is now available for download free via Google Play and App Store
