Find Friends who are Nearby using facebook

The app, which is available online as well as on Facebook’s Android and iOS versions, is opt-in. That's something of a rarity for new Facebook products, but given how sensitive the information being shared is, it makes sense that Facebook would avoid the usual privacy backlash it faces whenever it launches a product that automatically shares your data.

While logged into Facebook, you also log into the Find Friends Nearby app. After a few seconds, anyone in your vicinity who also has the FFN page open should appear on the list.

We haven’t been able to test it thoroughly yet, for the simple reason that the app is so new (and apparently still in development) that no one came up in the list when we took it for a test run. It’s also not clear what range Facebook uses to define “nearby.”

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