Janne Lindqvist, Justin Cranshaw, Jason Wiese, Jason Hong, and John Zimmerman
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
January 2011
There have been many location sharing systems developed over the past two decades, and only recently have they started to be adopted by consumers. In this paper, we present the results of three studies focusing on the foursquare check-in system. We conducted interviews and two surveys to understand, both qualitatively and quantitatively, how and why people use location sharing applications, as well as how they manage their privacy. We also document surprising uses of foursquare, and discuss implications for design of mobile social services.