Nearby Friends – Now You Can Locate Your Facebook Friends Real Time

Now You Can Locate Your Facebook Friends Real Time.Facebook had introduced ‘Nearby Friends’, a feature which helps users to locate their friends in real time.Actually It is the App was launched on 17th April, 2014 and is available for both iOS and Android.The feature ‘nearby friends‘, which does NOT activate itself unless you turn it on. The user can select his ‘visibility’ by setting the tracking permissions to ‘all friends/ close friends/ selected list of friends’.This option helps the user to determine the category of friends who can track the user. The newly added feature will work only if the user and his/her friends wish to share the location with each other. Thus the users can keep their privacy and can stay away from stalkers, the company hopes.When the user turns on the ‘nearby friends‘, the feature shows a list of friends who also uses the feature. Also a user can share the exact location with a specific set of friends for more connectivity. The app shows a list of friends, along with their present location, the distance to them from the user’s location, and time stamps which tells the time period spent by each user at their ‘last seen’ locations.

The difference between other check-in apps and ‘nearby friends‘ is, this feature automatically checks the user in to each and every new location whereas the users have to perform those check ins manually while he/she uses other apps.

Andrea Vaccari, lead designer said : “Sharing your location with Nearby Friends goes two ways — you and your friends both have to turn on Nearby Friends and choose to share with each other to see when you’re nearby. Your friends will only be able to see that you’re nearby if you share this info with them and vice versa.” - See more at: http://www.occupycorporatism.com/home/facebooks-nearby-friends-tracking-everyone-real-time/#sthash.X5LMaPrP.dpuf

Andrea Vaccari, lead designer said : “Sharing your location with Nearby Friends goes two ways — you and your friends both have to turn on Nearby Friends and choose to share with each other to see when you’re nearby. Your friends will only be able to see that you’re nearby if you share this info with them and vice versa.”

Google’s Latitude and Foursquare are similar tracking apps - See more at: http://www.occupycorporatism.com/home/facebooks-nearby-friends-tracking-everyone-real-time/#sthash.X5LMaPrP.dpuf

Andrea Vaccari, lead designer said : “Sharing your location with Nearby Friends goes two ways — you and your friends both have to turn on Nearby Friends and choose to share with each other to see when you’re nearby. Your friends will only be able to see that you’re nearby if you share this info with them and vice versa.” - See more at: http://www.occupycorporatism.com/home/facebooks-nearby-friends-tracking-everyone-real-time/#sthash.X5LMaPrP.dpuf

Google’s Latitude and Foursquare are similar tracking apps.