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Facebook's Find Friends Nearby: GPS lets you give nearby mobile users a Friendshake
A mobile Facebook feature called Find Friends Nearby, previously code-named Friendshake, is coming out of development and will soon be on its way to your iOS or Android phone. Perhaps springing from the social network's acquisition of ambient social app Glancee, it's still fairly primitive, merely navigating to a browser page on your device, where it will show you a list of other users within a given, undisclosed radius. Presumably, the benefit is to let you quickly add someone in your purview like Find my Friends, although we're interested to see what privacy settings are on offer. You never know, Mr. Zuckerberg could be tempting the privacy gods -- and governments -- once again.
Facebook's Find Friends Nearby: GPS lets you give nearby mobile users a Friendshake originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jun 2012 07:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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