It has arrived! After much speculation social media giant Facebook announced a new, optional location based service for its 500 million members called ‘Places’.
Places allows you to check in to the various places you go to, and share that information with your Facebook friends, complete with maps and comments and the Facebook thumbs-up ‘like’ feature.
The next big social media thing?
As we rumoured yesterday, the Facebook location services could be the next big thing to explode on the social networking scene. We’re keen to see how things pan out in these so called… ‘location wars’.
In fact we were so keen to get to grips with Facebook Places that we downloaded the update to the Facebook iPhone app this morning to get testing…
Sadly, it looks like we are going to have to wait a while. The new Places feature is currently only available in the US, Facebook said it will be rolling out the tool to other countries in the coming months.
Shame on you Facebook! In the meantime we will keep ‘playing’ with other location based services such as Foursquare, Gowalla and Shopkick.
If you are interested to hear more about how location based services can help your business, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us!
