Can anyone explain the point of Foursquare? I live in rural Scotland, I ended up muting or ignoring friends who did this "I've just checked in <somewhere fancy>" through Foursqaure. It just got really annoying, I don't really care about where my pals are "checking in to". Please enlighten me.
It's much more useful in a dense urban area. You can e.g. see that your friend is on the same event as you. Or in a caffee two blocks from you. Or in a cinema watching a movie, so you now have a conversation topic.
One of my experiences of using Foursquare is when a friend of mine checked in to a particular takeout food venue we fancy. A notification came, and a guy sitting next to me got his phone and call the mentioned friend to also buy food for all of us.
Such random situations were the main value of Foursquare to me.
