Foursquare people! I want more friends!

A little while ago I joined foursquare to find out what all the fuss is about, or rather, what all the fuss that pundits predict will be about.

I like it.

If you don't know anything about it, watch this wee vid;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFXzyJ8mUh4

That saved me having to type out an explanation.  What?  I'm tired!  If you can't watch the video, then follow this link instead.  Actually, if you are really keen to understand it all, watch the video and follow the link.

I have collected several badges already, and I'm trying hard to earn my first mayorship.

This is my Newbie Badge.  Doesn't take much effort to earn this one, I'll admit.

My Adventurer Badge was earned for checking in to 10 different venues.

Keeping up the effort earned me the Explorer Badge.  I'll not insult your intelligence by telling you how many venues this required.

My proudest Foursquare Achievement to date is earning the Super User Badge for 30 checkins in one month.

It's not all good news though.  Foursquare can be critical with it's harshly named Over-Share Badge.  This was earned for more than 10 checkins in under 12 hours.

Now to make things more interesting, I'd like to use Foursquare in the way its visionary founder intended.  Not as a badge collecting exercise (I've done my years in the Boys Brigade) but as a social networking tool.  

[His] problem was this: [his] friends were mostly living in East Greenwich Village, and they were around most days, but they never got together as much as they liked. Some days someone would be going to a baseball game, or someone would be going to a bar, or to the park, but there was no easy way of co-ordinating this social life among the group (this was back in the mists of networking time: Facebook hadn't been invented; even Friendster hadn't been invented). Crowley found himself applying his idling mind to the question of whether there might be a way of letting your friends know where you were, without making 20 phone calls; of taking the chance out of chance meetings.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/25/twitter-foursquare-social-networking-gowalla

So I need some friends to take the leap and get foursquare too.  So far I only have two friends, and that's not enough to make it live up to its potential.  So join! (please)