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Social media in the last few years has grown so fast that you just have to think of anything and there is a form of solution to it one way or the other.
In my opinion the mobile boom also pushed for the success of social media and it's involvement on so many platforms for which we can say, interaction and as well as problem solving issues has been initiated.
I have always remembered one thing my Elements of Economics lecturer when I was in university, Dr. Anim said "In everything, learn to adapt than to adopt". I really didn't make meaning to this statement then but after some years of completing my first degree, it made much much sense to me in full glare.
Fast forward to my theme for this blog post, I have been using a lot of social media tools and to be honest acquiring an iPad really exposed me to a whole lot. On the latter, mobile applications sprung up and still springing up for so many problem solving situations, from aviation to diagnostic solutions.
I got attracted to maps hence the application known as Foursquare. Did the initials of signing up and linking them to other platforms like that of twitter, Facebook and later my instagram accounts.
I perfectly remember that my first check-in on the Foursquare app was my Home....I then noticed there were the points marking that was accumulated into points, an add friend section and a few more additions as the days unfolded.
Over a couple of times, I decided to capture the captions that came up after checking in on a location, the reason was how humorous some of the statements were.
Some funny one that easily comes to mind are, "Welcome back! You haven't been home since 2 months ago", "Afua B. is the mayor of xxx place and you are creeping on her turf" "First time here leave a tip" and many more of those if you are conversant or uses this particular application I am talking about.
You will definitely find a few in the photos I will be adding to this post for you to enjoy. I am even planning on adding a video of it if possible. Among all these, there was one occasion that raised my eyebrow a little, I had checked into a few more restaurants within the week and after the fourth one, this notification popped up that I had received a badge and the name of the badge was a Mickey mouse Badge - the reason, I had been sniffing around too many eatery joints in that week. I laughed through for like 20 seconds. That actually prompted me to start capturing some of the notifications that came up after a check-in on the application at least as content for which I am putting up on my blog today.
This isn't a full long one, but I hope you loved reading this. Just check out the few pictures I captured anytime I checked-in with my Foursquare mobile application.
If you don't have an idea of what application I am talking about and you are interested in checking it out. Click the link below on the various platforms your mobile device is running on.
1. iOS
2. Android
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