By: If Facebook launches “location services” would you use them? | TrisHusseyDotCom

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:46:16 +0000

[...] Yes, I’m a well-known Facebook curmudgeon. I try to avoid using Facebook as much as possible (though I do acknowledge Facebook’s usefulness, even if begrudgingly), but I know I’m in the minority. Foursquare, is on the other hand, just gaining momentum and far from something that has taken the mainstream by storm. While I’ve been writing Teach Yourself Foursquare, I’ve been working on answering the “yeah, so what” question throughout the book. Sometimes it’s easy to answer this question for an online service, but for location-based services, it’s so new that I think the challenge all that much harder. Regardless, if you could “checkin” on Facebook, would you? What do you think the value would be to do this through Facebook vs another service? Looking at Facebook’s issues with privacy, and the very real privacy/security concerns about announcing your location, I would wonder if people might eschew a Facebook checkin as compared to Foursquare where you have a different set of people as friends (see also my previous post on this). [...]

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