i'm excited about brightkite and look forward to using it to find my friends in the real world. however, my experience so far has consisted only of about 10 annoying check-in messages from some stranger named Mona. I see in your FAQ:
("Why am I receiving messages from people I don't know? Check your "Nearby Notifications" settings in your Account Settings.")
...that I can change this setting but I urge you to change the default to "friends only". Otherwise everyone who dips their toe in like me will get annoyed before they get value, and most will unsubscribe.
Also it would be nice if the incoming SMS messages said they were from brightkite, rather than from "80289" which just looks like SMS spam. I don't think that's who you want to be.
I've noticed a couple of different places where I browse the "Around Me" part of BK where there is someone adding notes every 2 seconds which have nothing to do with the place.. it's more like what would happen if you let an ADD monkey use Twitter. That said, is there anyway to ignore users in Around Me? Or maybe add voting for user notes to determine if they show up or not.. etc...
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Lesley (Employee)
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on July 02, 2008 05:17
