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This is a quick post and more reflection than informed thinking!

Harvard University has partnered with FourSquare to help students explore the campus better. I think this is an excellent collaboration by an educational institution with a leading mobile-location based technology. Universities breed an environment of congeniality, amiability and the general desire to explore one’s surroundings and meet new people.

If Foursquare existed back when I was still in college, my social calendar and my social life would be far more interesting than it actually was without such games and technologies.

Foursquare on the campus has tremendous potential to evolve and become an all-encompassing social network for students. From knowing where your friends are hanging out after a class or where they are celebrating the results of a terrific exam — and hey – even stalking your professors to suck up to them for a recommendation for a job … Foursquare can only have a positive impact on the student life on campus. Thoughts ?

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