On Facebook privacy settings... what is "places I check in to" ?

[narrowachieve748]

I was just checking my privacy settings on facebook and was going over what is visible to who, like for example name and profile picture is visible to everyone, photos are available to friends only, etc etc, and one of the options was "places I check into" and the default is "friends only" but if my friends can see this, I would also like to be in on it, and know what it actually is! When do I check in, and where?! Can anyone help me?

[Shanzef]

I don't know myself, but I've heard that it's so people know where you are writing your status' from [ somehow!? ]

[Azayles]

I *think* this means that if you go on holiday to Spain, for example, and you log into facebook, it'll come up in the news feed that you changed your current location to Spain.
I've not been able to test this, as I don't have the money to go somewhere that nice!

[*Leah*]

It's where you are right now.