Last week Facebook released their new application, Facebook Places.
Taken from the idea of Foursquare, which Facebook had originally tried to acquire, the application allows people to share their location with friends. As part of the concept, you can:
Tag me!
When you ‘check in’, you can tag your friends like you would do with a photo or status update. If your ‘place’ doesn’t appear, you can manually add it in to the application.
Protect me!
Data privacy on Facebook has been a huge talking point in recent times so how are you protected with such a public application?
There has been some friction over having to “opt-out” of the service rather than “opt-in” to use it but Facebook seems to have covered most security worries. These include:
Currently, Facebook Places is only available within the US, with a roll-out to the UK expected in the near future.
