users Facebook will soon be able to receive alerts on your mobile application when friends are close. The social network app will be updated to Android users and iOS in the U.S. in the coming weeks, as announced by the Facebook product manager, Andrea Vaccari.
can enable or disable it whenever you wantUsers who want to be able to activate this new optional service called “Nearby Friends’ (close friends) to receive notifications” when are close friends, so we can contact and meet with them, “as noted Vaccari, but this will have to first give permission to Facebook to keep track of their location at all times and can: even when not connected
“You can choose who can see you when you are nearby (friends, closest friends, or those who are in a specific list of friends for example). turn on or off whenever you want, “said Vaccari. One possibility is to share offered only for a limited period information of the user’s location.
“Your friends will see that you are soo handy if you share this information with them and vice versa “, ie, that this new feature the two parties-both locating as being located-must have accepted the conditions are active. Facebook has said it will introduce service gradually over the next few weeks and some privacy advocates have expressed concern about the consequences which may arise for users using this service. As recordedWall Street Journal , as Chris Conley American lawyers have suggested that Facebook should keep users “regularly aware” of all those with whom they share location. Meanwhile, the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, Jeffrey Chester, asked the Federal Trade Commission to review this new product.
Since Facebook have said that users will receive regular notices about close friends, and that the company regularly analyzes its products. With the new feature, Facebook adds to a space that is already full of applications where people also shares such as Foursquare or Instagram .
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