After a month the highly anticipated Facebook Places has been launched, I can count the number of times I’ve logged in with my fingers; and it’s about less than 5 times.

It is freaky to have a stranger add you on Foursquare.

Freakier when you see the 100+ friends he has, only to find out there are only females in the list. And there is an obvious pattern, their profile picture is a self portrait and they also have a list of guys they probably do not know why they added them but still accepted the request anyway.

Flowtown has released another infographic based on research by Michael Steltzer, founder of SocialMediaExaminer that gives us a good overview of how businesses are latching onto the marketing opportunity presented by the growth of social media.

A recent survey at Ratepoint reveals small businesses are uncertain about using social media usage. Although 36 percent of small businesses agree their customers spend time on social networking sites, 27 percent are undecided and 20 percent disagreed that their customers were spending time on social networks.

Adding on to 5 Ways To Leverage Foursquare For Business, we find out more ways and prove how mobile marketing is definitely picking up.

Just as you were thinking Foursquare is a fun stalking game to let friends stalk friends, you are half right.

It creates conversation between friends as you better understand the places they frequent, it should be no surprise when I ask something like, “So how was the microbrewery you visited last weekend?”