Nosquare and Nowalla: Polluting the Stream

Location-based services are great. But please stop sending updates (check ins) to your Twitter and Facebook accounts. It is the perfect example of social-networking tie-in gone wrong.

Why do I say this? It's simple. For those of us that are hundreds or thousands of miles away–which could be many of your followers–tweeting your current location provides zero value. In fact, it is a (big) waste of your followers' time.

In a recent article, I stated this:

…for absolutely every person I currently...