[the_devils_advocate_666]

"Facebook’s new location-based mobile service, Facebook Places, alerts Facebook friends to each other’s locations if both parties have a mobile phone that runs Facebook and has geolocation technology built in."

Nothing to worry about if you're just visiting facebook from your laptop or desktop computer.

[libertarian27]

Nothing to worry about if you're just visiting facebook from your laptop or desktop computer.

Well yeah, that's this week, what about next....;)

I don't have a FB account but was on another site where people were freaking out about this new location grabber. There's bound to be a good horror/thriller based on this tech - coming to a theater near you....

[steve86]

Nothing to worry about if you're just visiting facebook from your laptop or desktop computer.

Agreed if my little test was representative. When connected via DSL, the granularity of location accuracy seems to be "which city are you in"? (Could be significant for Tiger Woods and crooked Chicago politicians)

[Kieri]

Are you sure about it working over a phone connection only? I’m at a coffee shop using their wifi on my iPad and the Facebook app asks if it can use the location for Places.

At least it gave me the option of saying no (my iPad doesn’t have 3G).

[Kieri]

Are you sure about it working over a phone connection only? I’m at a coffee shop using their wifi on my iPad and the Facebook app asks if it can use the location for Places.

At least it gave me the option of saying no (my iPad doesn’t have 3G).