Checking In On Checking In

Check-in lately? Not long ago this may have been an odd question to ask someone, but the term is quickly growing commonplace, as location-based social networking becomes quite the trend. Using smartphone apps like Foursquare, MyTown, Loopt, and Gowalla, the always-connected crowd announce their present location to their friends at the press of a touch-screen button. Along with “geo-tagging” themselves, they may earn digital rewards ranging from badges to virtual money, or battle it out to earn some variation of a title that essentially translates to King of the Hill…