{"id":7253,"date":"2017-12-13T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7253"},"modified":"2017-12-05T17:59:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T17:59:54","slug":"linked-designing-a-friendlier-untappd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/12\/13\/linked-designing-a-friendlier-untappd\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Designing a Friendlier Untappd&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2363,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/medium.com\\\/@LinkCable\\\/designing-a-friendlier-untappd-6ee9bb041404&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20171205135835\\\/https:\\\/\\\/medium.com\\\/@LinkCable\\\/designing-a-friendlier-untappd-6ee9bb041404&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 23:48:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-18 04:51:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-04 22:29:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-15 18:25:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-21 09:25:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-28 12:57:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-02 02:38:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-02 02:38:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@LinkCable\/designing-a-friendlier-untappd-6ee9bb041404\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Medium<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>As is evident, most (87%) users of Untappd use the app as a personal beer log. However, one of the interesting insights is that double the people use the app to check a beer\u2019s rating than see what their friends are drinking (8% versus 4%). Interesting for an app that is supposed to be a social network.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Untappd is the most un-social social network in existence.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of users with on average only 30 friends and mostly just use it to catalogue what they\u2019re drinking and not interact with others. I have 350 Untappd Friends for which I never sent a single friend request and I don\u2019t look at anything they are drinking. It\u2019s how I use Instagram as well. I\u2019d prefer people just went to my RateBeer or Flickr pages but they don\u2019t so I use these services but I\u2019m not a part of those communities. Seems I\u2019m not alone for the first time in my life in regards to social dynamics and how it blends with technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Medium: As is evident, most (87%) users of Untappd use the app as a personal beer log.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-12-13T17:59:48Z","apple_news_api_id":"03ca8503-ccad-4808-a86b-fa03e0e14331","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-12-13T17:59:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AA8qFA8ytSAioa_oD4OFDMQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1SZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7657,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/05\/04\/untappd-begins-monthly-review-emails\/","url_meta":{"origin":7253,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Untappd Begins Monthly Review Emails","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"May 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This is great. 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I have it all in 1-litre swing tops.\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Homebrewing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Homebrewing","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/beer\/homebrewing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Screen Shot 2012 09 30 at 7 22 50 PM","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-Shot-2012-09-30-at-7.22.50-PM.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2136,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/03\/01\/news-untappd-beer-page-re-design\/","url_meta":{"origin":7253,"position":4},"title":"\u2605 News: Untappd Beer Page Re-Design","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I use Untappd on my iPhone but today I visited their site and it looks great! Nice update. Also, I\u2019ve had Hill Farmstead beers at least 324 times and also, they don\u2019t have 124 unique beers. 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