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I like Moves (and all the quantified self stuff), but for me, I don't seem to get much out of the data. I just looked at Moves and had 161 days of data, but…so what? I've done nothing with it besides automatically check-in to places on Foursquare, which I also don't really need or care about ("Awesome, I'm mayor of Costco!"). I went ahead and deleted my account and the app on my phone—at least I'll see a little boost in battery life.

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Think about it another way.

Facebook biggest problem is their lacking ability to detect intent. You normally check in somewhere after the fact.

Facebook doesn't need every user to be using moves they just need a fair portion and it will increase the value of their data as they can now start to map that up against other behaviors and apply it much more broadly.

So that "unimportant" data is in fact very important as allow FB access your unintended behaviors (i.e. in contrast to checkin, like, post, comment)

So I agree it's not useful as such, but if enough people still use it anyway then it will be very useful for FB.

Yep, my exact sentiments regarding the app.

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