If you’re not familiar with FourSquare yet, it’s a social app that allows people to “check in” to locations like restaurants, bars, and other businesses. You can let people know where you checked in on Facebook, Twitter, or from the iPhone app itself. Whoever visits a location the most has the opportunity to become the “mayor” of that location and gains bragging rights and possibly special offers from the business.
To me this is all lame. I don’t need to know that you stopped by Starbucks on your way to work. But can it make your tailgating easier? Using this guide you can add your tailgating spot to FourSquare in just a couple of minutes. The benefit is that each person can check in to the tailgate as they arrive. So someone still on the road can log in and see who is already there. Or you can see where your friends are tailgating around campus. You can always just text or call someone to figure out where the hell they are, but FourSquare allows you to see where a lot of people are quickly. Just something to think about.
