Before all those ephemeral story applications such as Instagram or Snapchat existed, the social world did not have an app par excellence, referring to those applications that everyone uses at the same time. There were endless applications, and without a doubt one of the ones that most hooked us was foursquareOur checkin of particular places. And is that that of biting with your friends to see who managed to become the mayor from the university, or to go commenting on the places we visited, he liked a lot.
Foursquare was followed by Swarm, an app from the company that focused on those checkins to give a greater prominence to places, or locations, itself through the Foursquare app. An app that, although it still has its followers, has seen its audience drop considerably. Now the boys of Foursquare want to give Swarm a spin, will continue to have that social spirit but now it focuses on us, on being our personal diary of the places we visit ...
And it moves away from the fashion of ephemeral content, in Swarm now the spirit is in serve to remember all those places we have passed. And it is that who has not tried to remember, without success, that restaurant you dined at 5 months ago, the objective of Swarm is that, to serve us to remember all the details of a location that we have visited or that for some reason you want to remember.
We will continue to have the social part of the mayors, and your friends can keep gossiping, if you want, the places you visit. An interesting gesture by Foursquare that recovers the spirit of the app. What's more, others like Tripadvisor or Google Maps have copied this to save sites we have been through, that is, we all like to take into account the places we have visited in the past.