At present Facebook can boasts of a new service, it is known as Facebook Places. In fact, it is considered to be a smartphone-base service that is similar to the exhisting service, like Yelp and Foursquare.With the help of Facebook Places it is possible to see if friends are nearby, discover places via friends’ profiles as well as people can share their location in a social way.
It turned out that the capabilities of the new service are identical to the features that are already popularized by Foursquare. Also with the help of the service a user is able to tag friends who are in the same location, take into consideration that you can also check them.
A big attention was drawn towards Places’ security features. Check-ins are visible only to friends, but still this setting is customizable enough, due to which one can make broader sharing or restrict it to a few specific people.
Also users are provided with an opportunity to remove themselves from any tag. Apart from that there will be a reporting feature that will report about location listings that are offensive, erroneous, and even out of date.
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