What is the use of check-in points in Foursquare?

It is yet another feature that encourages you to explore more than your friends just like badges. You must check-in at several places to get more points. New places, new venue categories, even being first of your friends who checked in there gives more points so you can challenge your friends. But literally useless. read more

New places, new venue categories, even being first of your friends who checked in there gives more points so you can challenge your friends. But literally useless. There is no badge for a limit of points or something else. It was more prominent in earlier versions but while Foursquare evaluated to a city guide, points have kinda lost the importance. read more

In addition to getting recommendations from your friends, which is the basic use case for Foursquare, there are two killer features: Explore and Radar. Explore lets you search for places to eat, shop or stay nearby, and it can personalize the results to you. read more

Foursquare is a local search-and-discovery service mobile app which provides search results for its users. The app provides personalized recommendations of places to go to near a user's current location based on users' "previous browsing history, purchases, or check-in history". read more