Ever since I’ve been old enough to leave the house on my own, my mom has always followed “goodbye” with “call me when you get there!” It never mattered if I was going down the street or 500 miles away, it was always the same.
Since joining foursquare, I’ve longed for a way for my mom to be on the service so she’d know I was safe just by watching my checkins. With her eight-year-old phone and complete inability to understand even the whole “texty” thing, it’s clear that’s not going to happen.
Now it doesn’t have to, thanks to a brilliant new foursquare API app called HashtagMom. When you add “#mom” to a check-in, it automatically gives her a call, lets her know you’re safe and reads her whatever shout you added to the check-in.
She even has the option to leave a message for you that will be delivered to your email.
If your mom is a little more tech-savvy and understands “texty,” you can opt to have HashtagMom simply send her a text instead of calling.
This is a wonderful idea because it addresses every mother’s greatest fear in a way that’s convenient and easy for us to integrate into something we’re doing anyway. Now I just need a HashtagWife service that sends my wife a text that says “I’m at the grocery store, do we need anything?”
What do you think of HashtagMom? Would you use it or would it just annoy your mom that you didn’t take the time to call yourself?
#1 by vincent on January 27, 2012 - 12:43 pm
Doesn’t have to be Mom’s number. Let me place my buddy’s number and annoy him for April Fool’s day.
#2 by Bill L. on January 27, 2012 - 12:59 pm
Genius. Time to annoy my friends now too.
#3 by Mario Hargianto on January 28, 2012 - 12:10 am
Great idea. It is simple but very usable application. It functions not only as simple security system, but also as simple telecommunication system. It will be more useful if it is designed to be just “one-click” app integrated with GPS just to inform the subject’s coordinates.
#4 by FlawLESS on February 2, 2012 - 4:57 pm
So this is free?
#5 by Chris Thompson on February 2, 2012 - 8:31 pm
Yup.
#6 by pain on February 10, 2012 - 1:39 am
Alferra naiz batzuetan , arren it!