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Facebook Places, Facebook's location-based feature that launched in August of 2010, allows Facebook users to virtually "check into" a physical location mobile fitness marketing using their cell phone. The objective of a virtual check in is to share your physical location with your friends over the internet so they could have a chance to meet up with you in person. Facebook Places is a competitor to other location based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla but has recently proven itself to be much more powerful from a mobile fitness marketing systems viewpoint.

Organizations have been quick to use fitness email mobile marketing tool due to the low cost to zero cost operation fee along with its ability to help a brand go viral. Every user register equates to a profile update and on average a chance for hundreds of Facebook users to see that update. Quite simply every user check in acts as an advertisement on Facebook for others to see. (Here is an example below)