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Perhaps, but I would class it as a private location now so they have good reason to have it removed as a Pokestop?

Please don't lynch me. However, I do play Pokemon Go.

Now before you scream 'GROW UP!' at me, I DID originally only install the app for work related purposes.

I work in the hospitality industry, and funnily enough, Pokemon Go + Social Media = immediate way to potentially grow business.

I figured I'd use it for a couple of days, get bored of it and then stick to using it mostly just to do Facebook updates for work. Facebook being something else I don't use much personally, more for work purposes. Bearing in mind I used to play Pokemon when the first Game Boy version came out 17 years ago. The business I work at is a Pokestop so has attracted a number of extra guests over the last few months, especially when the sun decided to show itself. Some of our sister sites have had similar experiences to us in terms of increased footfall, while one in particular had their advertising photographed and subsequently posted to the Smooth Radio Facebook page, which has a reach of at least 100,000 people. That's a HUGE potential market to advertise to people, in anybodys terms.

However, I have kept going with it for a number of reasons. A number of my team members are playing the game, as are my colleagues, and even my managers who don't usually take interest in this sort of thing, are playing it. It's got people talking to each other, even if Pokemon is the subject starter, and some of the team will even go out after work to go Pokemon hunting around some of the more prevalent spots for rare Pokemon that are around Milton Keynes (and there are quite a few). It's turned into a bit of a competition/reminiscing to the days of Pokemon Blue and Red where people are comparing and trying to outdo each other (in friendly fashion, of course).

In short, it's good for business, it's good for team building, and like some others have posted already, it's actually getting people out and off their backsides.

I appreciate that some of you, or perhaps even a lot of you don't like this thing at all, but in modern times when technology seems to lead the way in a lot of the things we do and the behaviour of today's society, I feel that the positives of this thing far outweigh the negatives.

On that note, my little rant is at an end. Thank you

Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad

Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica

As much as I would love to, I find I neither have the time or the patience for such things. The same goes for building my own coils, along with the fact I'm a little club fisted.