Answer added in topic Mobile Location Applications.
The premise of this question is a bit flawed.
You cannot have private checkins on Facebook in the same sense that they exist on Foursquare because of the way a "private" checkin is implemented on 4sq.
You see, 4sq is a game. People want points and mayorships. Sometimes, this causes them to do�embarrassing things, like checking in when they are at the doctor's office or at the local brothel (kids, don't try this at home :-)
A private check-in on 4sq allows you to get the points without alerting everyone to your potentially unsavory activities.
Facebook Places has no game mechanic. Ostensibly, if you are at a place you don't want people to know about, you wouldn't have a motivation to checkin.
However, you can control the privacy settings for Places wall posts just like other pieces of data on Facebook, so you could theoretically make it more "private" by limiting it to just a small list of friends.�
I suppose you could create a situation where you have an empty list and therefore no one but yourself could see your places checkins. That setting though would be applied to ALL your checkins, as opposed to on a case-by-case basis in 4sq. It would also be a very odd way to use the service as Places doesn't have any of the data visualization or statistics tools that Foursquare has that allow you to aggregate data about your checkin history.
See question on Quora
Post originale: http://www.quora.com/Will-Facebook-Places-offer-a-private-check-in-like-Foursquare
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