Facebook announced that soon it will introduce a new feature in Mobile application for Android and iOS, Nearby Friends, through which friends can find one another the location exact when it is nearby. The feature is character optional, and will be disabled in default mode, so those who are worried by a possible violation of intimacy should not be alarmed (the location will not be made public in social network unless you choose to activate this feature).
Nearby Friends is an optional feature. You can choose who can see if you’re nearby (for example: your friends, close friends, or a specific friends list) and you can turn it on and off at any time.
Because the location you to be found by friends on Facebook Located nearby both of you and those friends you need to have activat Nearby Friends. You can also configure as Only certain friends to be able to find out the location, and just for a limited time (eg, you want your location to be visible only for a particular contact, for a period of 10 minutes. When this time expires, your location will no longer be visible on the map, the service disables automatically).
Also through this feature, Facebook allows users to find out where I travel their friends, to send them various recommendationi (if they already know the locations in which the respective friends are).
At the moment, Nearby Friends it is only available in the US, but most likely Facebook It will integrate this feature for users from other regions of the world later this year.
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