Many people may have signed up to Foursquare who may wish to check-in to their location using their computer rather than their mobile phone. This article shows you how to do this in 3 easy steps.
1. Login to the Foursquare Mobile website
At the moment, you cannot check-in to Foursquare using the main website as Foursquare is a mobile-based social networking site. However, you can login to Foursquare using its mobile site. Therefore, to check-in, go to http://foursquare.com/mobile/ and click ‘Log in’.
2. Find Location
You will then be able to check-in by clicking on ‘Check-in’ and entering the name of your location.
If the place where you are is not listed on Foursquare, a list of possible venues will come up. You can select one of the options from the list if it fits the description of your location. However, if nothing matches your current whereabouts, the you will have to enter the details before you can check-in to it.
3. Check-in
As with the Foursquare App, you can choose to make your check-in public or you can hide it from your friends. Here, you can also select whether or not to share the check-in through Twitter or Facebook.
If your check-in is public, you can decide to add a ‘shout’, which will be a message displayed with your check-in.
Once you have made these decisions, you can click on ‘Check-in’. This will then be entered as an activity on your history.
As you have read, it is pretty easy to check-in to Foursquare online rather than on a phone. However, by using this system, I recommend you only use it when you have to and make sure that you are in the location that you say you are in – otherwise this will be seen as cheating. Using the mobile website is, however, a great alternative to having to use the Foursquare iPhone App.
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