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Facebook launches "Places," geo-location service that's both cool and
Facebook launches "Places," geo-location service that's both cool and creepy
More: Facebook launches "Places," geo-location service that's both cool and creepy | ZDNetIt was perhaps the worst kept secret since, well, Apple’s iPhone 4. Facebook today is announcing a new feature, called Places, that allows users to share their locations with friends - and allows their friends to be updated in real-time.
The goal, of course, is to take the virtual relationships that we’ve recreated with old friends on Facebook and bring them into the physical world, too. And, if you really start to look beyond that, you can imagine the interaction you might have with local businesses who will know that you’re in the area - and might want to entice you into their businesses with a coupon or some other promotion.