Foursquare Adds Photos: 'Color'ful Feature or Privacy Concern?

When popular check-in service Foursquare announced this week it would add an easy photo-sharing function, users could be forgiven for seeing shades of ‘Color’ flash before their eyes, and wondering if, perhaps, their favorite site had just gone there too. Did it?

When popular check-in service Foursquare announced this week it would add an easy photo-sharing function, users could be forgiven for seeing shades of ‘Color’ flash before their eyes, and wondering if, perhaps, their favorite site had just gone there too.  Did it?

Sharing photos, of course, was the intrigue and selling point of Color, the much-hyped, and equally criticized, app with no privacy settings, and even fewer boundaries that debuted in March.  The free app, for both Android and the Apple iOS platform, detects a user’s location and lets him or her create and share photos and video albums automatically with other Color users within 100 feet, in real time.

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