We think of check-ins as you check-in at Yankee Stadium or you check-in at dinner. But then people use it to check-in to traffic, to check-in to the back of a cab. The playground is a good example. It's not a use case we anticipated. Parents uses it to meet up with other parents with kids. I think that's perfect. Use it whatever way you want.
Letting people make mischief or share experiences that aren't anchored to "place" is the cornerstone of why Foursquare is successful. With the explosion of blogs, facebook fan pages and Twitter accounts, Friendster's war against the "fakesters" (I was friends with the iPod and the F Train) seems like a turning point in the history of social networks.
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