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- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -2/+47facebook is already stalker friendly, location awareness would make it stalker central.
- stlcadet11, on 07/17/2008, -1/+27You can't view or write on walls with the facebook app... that is a major downer :(
- neel360, on 07/17/2008, -1/+20Who cares about "location awareness?" The Facebook app has got a lot of other, much larger problems. How about the inability to post on anyone's wall?
- meamog, on 07/17/2008, -1/+11Ahem, from blog.facebook.com...
"The first version of Facebook for iPhone is just a glimpse of the future. For instance, the iPhone has the ability to find where you are located, and we are looking for ways to let you opt-in to share your location and discover nearby friends. We're developing this and several other exciting new features that we'll release in the coming months." - srt4b, on 07/17/2008, -1/+10According to Digg 50% of iPhone apps are KILLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- richardhenry, on 07/17/2008, -0/+7If my friends want me to know where they are, they can tell me. I don't need minute-to-minute coordinates. By the way, who still reads TechCrunch, and why?
- benologist, on 07/17/2008, -3/+10I think being location aware for the sake of being location aware is pretty pointless. There are great ideas and great services that will be built around it but there's a *lot* of stuff it really isn't relevant to and doesn't need to be integrated with. Facebook and MySpace aren't ignoring it "at their peril" they're ignoring it because it doesn't really matter to them.
- benologist, on 07/17/2008, -0/+5It seems like a pretty unlikely series of events....
- you connect with friends you haven't seen in ages via facebook
- they happen to be going to a baseball match in your town *but* don't mention they'll be in town, or alternatively they're still in your town but have chosen not to meet up with you
- everyone involved happens to have iphones and be checking their facebook at the game (seems unlikely although baseball is so fricking boring I guess you have to do something). - inactive, on 07/17/2008, -1/+4Privacy does not exist.
- goflyers, on 07/16/2008, -1/+4I agree with your concern about facebook being stalker friendly, but like most software it should be secure/private by default. I don't use an iPhone but I think it would be cool for phones with GPS to utilize the option of making known your location. With facebook this is a no brainer, if i were to update my status to "???? is drinking at ?????" why not have it show my location at the time i posted the update? I wouldn't make people my friends on facebook if they didn't always have an open invite to join me for a beer.
- ctonks, on 07/17/2008, -0/+3can anyone explain to me how the google maps program on my ipod touch (2.0 firmware) located me to my old street address? did someone locate my wireless access point at my old address at some stage?
genuinely curious, would like to know how to update it as well. - mediaphile, on 07/17/2008, -1/+4You're right, the native apps just crash for no reason.
- Radan, on 07/17/2008, -0/+3They truly kill. My grandmother passed away because of an iPhone app.
Remember kids, don't download application you don't know. It's cool to say no. - username7410, on 07/17/2008, -0/+3Haha, could you imagine all the To-Catch-A-Predator pervs that would abuse such a feature?
- Reaktor5, on 07/17/2008, -1/+4Where's our Digg app!
- wonkavsn, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2But they keep offering me free candy!
- inactive, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2You marked it as your home in the past.
- richardhenry, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2If I was at the mall and so were they, and we didn't think to ask each other, then the chances are that we don't want to be spending hours together shopping, never mind because the reason is "I detected your presence via your iPhone!"
No thanks. I'll stick with the current way of finding and grouping with people I know. If I feel like going to the mall with a bunch of friends, then I call them, send them a message or ask them on IM or Facebook. - binford04, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2Seriously! WTF is up with that? You'd think with a second time to develop the mobile app they'd include this (main) feature.
- Matrixsjd, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2then set "Location Services" to off in the settings, and it won't bug you at all.
- goflyers, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3Also, imagine you are at a baseball game, check facebook to see which of your friends are near you, then find out some of your friends you haven't seen since college are there too. call them up to see what they're up to after the game. facebook and myspace already have the infrastructure and user group, so why not expand web social networking to actual social networking?
I skimmed TFA didn't RTFA so maybe i'm being redundant. - sonicularulus, on 07/17/2008, -1/+3id probably delete the app if that location awareness comes up. I dont want people to know where I am.
- webjoseph, on 07/17/2008, -1/+3RIDGE RACER!
- richardcclark, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2I'd opt in to something like this - what a great idea! I've wanted this for years.
- mediaphile, on 07/17/2008, -1/+3Then you would just choose "no" when the security pop-up asks if you want to grant the app access to your location.
Pretty simple, no need to overreact. - mediaphile, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2Not to mention the inability to look at anyone's photos outside of whatever shows up in the mini-feed. The FB webapp allows you to do both of these things. So does the MySpace app.
- dbr2k, on 07/17/2008, -1/+3don't be a retard, obviously it would be optional
- goflyers, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2Well, coincidences do happen and the saying "Its a small world" came from somewhere. For example, this past winter 3 of my friends and I went to a college basketball game in NYC, ran into my neighbors from sophomore year, that I was quite good friends with but had lost touch with, in a pub next to the arena before the game. Ended up hanging out with them and a bunch of other people that I recognized from college. I didn't think to inform everyone I know in NYC that I would happen to be in the city and I would not have wanted to make them feel like they needed to entertain me and my friends the whole weekend.
I agree that adoption of uploading your location may take a while or never take off but more phones than just the iphone have GPS. I think most of HTC's do. - EtherGnat, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2"If those people wanted to see you, they would let you know where they are. No need for it to autmatiucally tell others."
Really? You've never serendipitously ran into an old friend at a movie or gas station? This just extends the concept. As for them letting "you know where they are" that's exactly what they'd be doing by adding you as a friend and enabling location awareness. - seastobble, on 07/17/2008, -1/+2hate to be a nervous nancy here, but I just think it would be pretty creepy to have people be able to pull up a map with my location on it at any time, even if it was only friends (not to mention girlfriends).
- inactive, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1I never said I disliked the elimination of privacy or had a Facebook account. Way to assume, asswipe!
- lsumed, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1I don't know, this could be creepy. As long as they don't spam your inbox like Loopt is said to do.
- username7410, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Why don't you have seat over there.
- Bob042, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1It's odd that you can't write on the wall in the app, but is it that hard to use the website? They even have an iphone version, which I'm pretty sure writes on the wall just fine.
- sonicularulus, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1I'd be pretty annoying to actually say no each time that message box comes up. I find it annoying to always say yes on google maps.
Anyways, i dont want to sound over reacting, but if the option does come up to say no, and i dont have to always say no, i'll be okay with getting the new version. - mediaphile, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1I agree that it's slightly annoying. There should be a per-application "always..." setting, either always on or always off. As Matrixsjd noted, you can turn Location Services off for the entire device, but then you'd lose your Google Maps functionality. This obviously isn't the best solution. But it's just not reasonable to delete the app simply because it has the capability to use location services at your discretion.
- inactive, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1I'm impressed they managed to get Facebook chat working in the app, but honestly (I know it's been said like three times above me) but I would rather have the ability to write on someone's wall. It's the most common form of communication through the site.
- AlxRymnd914, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Location awareness is not a killer feature.... It gets extremely aggravating having to allow programs to use it every time. That's definitely not the reason these applications are driving new users.....
- Flooq, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Well I think you need to distinguish between giving a service a constant update of your location and sending a one-time search request based no your coordinates. Most of these apps are doing the latter so far and I don't consider that to be a problem, after all if you're searching for a McDonalds in an area of a city it's pretty obvious where you are anyway and GPS is more accurate.
- WebmasterNeal, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1I personally don't want facebook, myspace or any company "knowing where I am" at all times. Those marketing types will find some way to be evil with that data. If you want to search for the nearest McDonalds, how hard is it to look at a street sign and type in the city you are currently in? or is it worth giving up your privacy for those extra 15 seconds you spent typing?
- locojones, on 07/17/2008, -1/+2I, for one, think that an iPhone-only location-aware social networking site would be fantastic! That way, all these pretentious snobs can congregate with each other and wax ecstatic about how cool they are and how they're better than everybody else and can jerk off all over their cute little phones. It would keep them busy enough so we wouldn't have to see an iPhone article every 45 seconds on here, and large groups of salivating nerds would make it easy to take out significant swaths of them at a time with a vehicle.
- gettarat, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1You can't view or write on walls with the facebook app... that is a major downer :(
http://nextargps.org/ - goflyers, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1RTFM
- bradleyland, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1How is that statement supported by this article? How is it even relevant? If you're uncomfortable with the idea, simply don't create a Facebook account. Any iPhone app that tries to access your location shows a prompt before it is allowed to access your current location.
- inactive, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Don't get me wrong, I do want them to add location awareness. I'm just saying its kinda creepy :)
- dwalker17, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Not really surprising the berry app that came out a year ago for FB didn't have GPS capability and since then it hasn't discouraged berry users from using it. ..../yawn@iphonespam
- pyrates, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Buried as lame when I read that this is the same author that suggested an iPhone only social network. How *****' lame can you get. Plus I agree there should be no location awareness. I don't like the idea of posting my exact location on facebook. If I want to do that, I do it manually, not automatically.
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