They won't leave us alone with the rumors. Facebook says again it is preparing a new in-app so that you are informed at any time about where your friends are. The addition, which will be immediately comparable to the “Find My Friends” of Apple, will be able to run in the background and with automatic update inform you of the location of your friends. Our news comes from Bloomberg which claims it has spoken with people knowledgeable about the subject without actually naming anyone.
“The app, scheduled for release by mid-March, is designed to help users find nearby friends and would run even when the program isn’t open on a handset, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public.
The team developing Facebook’s location software is being led by Peter Deng, a product director who joined from Google in 2007, one person said. The group also includes engineers from Glancee, a location-tracking startup Facebook acquired in May, and Gowalla, a location-based social network whose assets were purchased in December 2011, the person said.”
It appears that this new application will help Facebook target ads better by location and user habits. Relying on the fact that such a thing is not unknown to users, and now they do check‑ins to inform their friends where they are, they are creating an automated application. Indeed, this type of information is something entirely different. If such an addition is true, it will be optional and the user will be given the ability to reactivate it.
