Just asking for a fight, Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley is telling members of the press that Facebook's new Place check-in tool is "boring" and "unexciting." In an interview with
The Telegraph, Crowley says: "I have now had a chance to play around with
Facebook Places and it's not that great or interesting. It's a pretty boring service, with barely any incentives for users to keep coming back and telling their friends where they are." To boot, "The
only interesting thing about Places is that it has a potential audience of over 500 million people around the world... but that can only be a good thing for location-based services, like Foursquare,
as Facebook will educate the masses about check-ins," Crowley adds. Crowley believes that Foursquare's gaming mechanics will keep people far more enticed into using his service over the likes of
Places.
"I always knew Facebook would launch a check-in tool," he tells The Telegraph. "I knew that on the day we started creating Foursquare. But I also knew that people needed incentives to
keep checking-in and sharing their location. Facebook could copy our games ideas, but we are working on a raft of new mechanics which we hope will keep Foursquare fresh and 'check-in fatigue' away."
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