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Depends on why people check into places. Is it their daily human need to publish their location? Or is it that they saw a silly idea and decided to have some fun playing along. If the latter, why wouldn't they use 4square for that instead the serious FB?

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Checking in, in terms of social interactions, is like a deconstructed form of interacting. I've been thinking about how we've deconstructed personal interactions, and how we've arrived at these one-button-click/automated communiques:

Meeting in person > talking on phone > sending an e-mail > sending an SMS > posting on someone's wall > creating a general friend-syndicated update > [<poke>, <like>, <check-in>]

I can't imagine that is sufficient interaction in the long run.

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