Facebook Places: Bringing Location to the Masses

Facebook Places is a service operable from Facebook smart phone apps and touch.facebook.com that allows users to 'check in' at a particular location, see who is there and update their friends on what they are doing.

Facebook Places: Bringing Location to the Masses

Lyndon Morant, Matt Mint & Ciar´n Norris

WHAT ARE LOCATION-BASED-SERVICES (LBS)?

Broadly, they're mobile apps that let you share where you are and where you've been with your social web. By ‘checking in’ where you are – say, a local sandwich shop, or a highly innovative global media agency – you can act as an advocate by describing what you're doing and how you're feeling, and leave tips for future visitors, turning users into mini Yellow Pages.

WHAT IS FACEBOOK PLACES?

Facebook Places is a service operable from Facebook...

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