Crowley and crew want Swarm to be a diary of your day-to-day life that can tell you, years from now, exactly where you were on a given day. Compared with boasting to your friends about your 14th consecutive coffee shop visit, the lifelog is a grander and more appealing purpose for the check-in. “If you get in the habit of checking in everywhere you go, you just take it for granted that you have this version of your memory that you will never forget,” Crowley says.
This is why I still use Swarm. The 1,000 friends and 500 followers on Swam along with the 300 additional friends requests I can’t answer because I’m at friends limit don’t really matter to me. I’m sure most aren’t even active anymore. I have Swam sync with Dropbox as an XML file via IFTTT and have a record of every place I’ve been since 2007. It’s pretty amazing.