@ Dr. Azrael Tod:

I actually don’t mind if people post occasional “I’m at Foo! It’s awesome. Come join me!” things as tweets or status messages. It’s when they generate a constant stream of “So and so checked into Foo an became a Mayor of Bar” is when this gets annoying.

@ k00pa:

Most phones already do this. They put geo tags in the Exif data. Also if you use Flicker you can geo-tag your photos via their web interface if they don’t have an Exif location tag.

@ Liudvikas:

I don’t get much. It’s very sporadic really – like once a year or so. I guess I’m not awesome enough yet. :P

@ mcai8sh4:

See I never had that problem. I have never actually blacked out from excessive drinking. In fact I am hardly ever hung-over. I think I have some internal alcohol dosage meter that makes me pace myself. Then again my friends think that this is just due to the fact that I just don’t know how to party like a rock star. They keep trying to teach me that important skill all the time. :P

@ Ricky:

Thanks captain popularity. When you put it like this I feel like a complete loser for not being out and about every day of the week.

No wait, scratch that. That would be like a social anxiety hell for me. Occasionally going out on the weekends are enough exposure for this recluse. :P

@ Dr. Azrael Tod:

I wouldn’t call it technophobic. I would call it privacy conscious. The thing about technology is that it creates new ways to compromise our privacy every day. We all ought to be mindful of that.

@ Douglas:

I just do that manually via Twitter. Though I mostly let the world know what I’m reading since I don’t watch that much TV. When I do, it usually ends up on this blog in form of a review though.

I’m in the same boat as you, Luke. I don’t go anywhere interesting enough to warrant using such a service. I too also have no social life, and value my privacy.

I do, though, watch quite a bit of TV, and after seeing some people use it on Twitter, started using Miso. It’s the same basic concept as Foursquare and suchlike but for movies and television shows. I don’t mind showing that off on the Internet :)

I’ve not seen any sense in this so far.
I have some social life, but not that much (or interesting) that I’d want to post it to the net. My friends/family mostly know where I am and if not we’ll use text messages. No need to get into geotagging.
But then, maybe I’m boring and only know boring people :)

i find it amazing that in discussions like this everybody brings up the “just my friends will see it, because i selected ‘private’ in this webform”-argument.
No, not just your friends will see it! It’s the internet! At least the one who created this service will know it too and if there is some security-leak everyone else will see it too.
You just can’t trust this little settings-page to be safe forever, so don’t post things you wouldn’t feel comfortable if everyone would know it.

Maybe that’s just the technophobe part of me speaking, but i think it’s allways the same and people tend to forget things like this.

If you don’t go anywhere, and have no friends, then it makes sense to not see any appeal to this service. But for a lad that goes out every day, few days, or week, it adds a little fun to things.

I use it on a daily basis, and I used to go out a LOT. Nowadays, it’s less much – I’m on and off – for the past month or two it’s mostly just been work and home. Regardless, it also helps me keep track of exactly *when* I was *where*. I’ve never had any privacy issues with Foursquare as they make it extremely easy to understand.

People always bring up the “broadcasting to the world” argument; you’re only broadcasting it to people you have friended. And even then, you can check in to locations without showing your friends. If you choose not to show your Foursquare friends, it’s just for yourself. If you post it to Facebook and Twitter, you automatically accept the assumption of risk of doing so. No one’s going to show up to your porch unless you check in to your porch in a way that other people can see it. Period.

Geolocation services on your phone should only eat battery when they are on or activated. I haven’t had any problems with that.

@Liudvikas, I realise that this isn’t technically ‘mail’, but I hate you for… erm, hang on… not using a capital letter for ‘Nazi’ – there you go, now you’re a little bit more awesome than before! Use it wisely.

I’ve never used, or seen a need for broadcasting myself to the world. I’ve fallen into quite a strict routine, home, work, pub, and occasionally I throw in some other location just to keep people guessing. Although to be honest, I’m not really one for social networks, hence the lack of facebook, twitter, buzz et al updates.

Having thought about it though, geotagging could be useful, if I set it so onlt I can see it. Then after a good night out drinking responsibly(!), I might be able to piece together what happened to me – not sure if that would be a good thing or not.

edit – woo comment #20000

You get hate mail?
Now that is awesome. First sign of being awesome is being hated by someone, sadly I get no hate mail (there’s theory this is because I have no blog or any public opinion apart from comments on various blogs), though I’ve got a post on my youtube channel(with no videos of course, only comments on other people videos) calling me a nazi, I wear it proudly!

I don’t use them, because like you I don’t want everyone to know where I am all the time. If I’m going to be somewhere fun and I want others to join me I’ll either send a mass text message or just manually update my status.

I have a friend though that every time he goes to the strip club it updates his Facebook status. Pretty funny actually.

tagging photos is ok, but i don’t even make that much of them.
When i really want to tell someone “hi, im at FOO and here is just happening BAR” then i can do this. But why should i spam all the time with stuff noone want’s to read anyway?

So: no, i don’t get it!

I don’t really care about geotagging in form of these social services.

However I would really like to tag my photos. If I would have tagged all of my photos with location, I could easily search for photos with the location data.

I believe that in near future every professional camera will have GPS build in just to make it easier to manage huge collection of photos.