Facebook on last Friday proposed creating a way for people to add their locations to Facebook pages but released almost no details about how the feature will work.
The location-based feature, hinted at in a post on Facebook's blog, would give the social network's 400 million-plus members a function that has been popularized on newer "location-based" Web sites like Foursquare and Gowalla.
Those two sites feature mobile apps that are set up like games, encouraging smartphone- or laptop-wielding users to "check in" at restaurants, businesses and public locations. When a person checks in to a certain spot, his or her friends are alerted about their whereabouts.
Posting locations in addition to status messages and Web links has become a major theme of online social networking this year.
In a blog post on Friday, Michael Richter, Facebook's deputy general counsel, provided few details about how the places feature would work but did confirm that Facebook is working on features that use people's locations.
He writes that the addition is "more exciting" than a location feature the company had been planning.
This month, The New York Times cited unnamed sources saying Facebook would unveil its location-based feature at its annual f8 conference for Facebook application developers, which begins April 21 in San Francisco, California.
Friday's Facebook post also says that the massive social networking site will make changes "sometime soon" to the policies that govern how it works.
Such alterations typically draw raucous debate, and often backlash, from the Facebook community, but the site says it is announcing the changes for review before they go into effect so users will have time to read them and post comments.
Techdy Bear views :
'Place' feature will be added to Facebook soon? This location-based feature sounds new and exciting to most of us. Facebook haven't confirm this feature will go on. If Facebook do add it, it won't be a bad thing. But, this feature is no doubt for those who are obsessed with wanting to know everything all their Facebook friends are doing and where they are. I will try it when this feature is available, but certainly I'm not a fan of it.
sources : CNN Tech
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ya, i heard of it and tried it myself. u inspired me to write it. http://techdybear.blogspot.com/2010/04/facebook-magic-circles-trick.html
Small matter. Just sharing idea. Good day.