Allow Friends To Know Your Exact Location Using Your Iphone And Facebook Account

Written By: Kenneth Ferguson on September 2, 2010 No Comment

There have been a lot of privacy concerns that has been presented against Facebook that they should advice their users not to upload private personal information in their accounts that my well be used by some criminals.

Facebook people have plans starting yet another controversial application on their popular website which could either be helpful or used for bad purposes.

This particular service in FB is called ‘Places’ and what it does is it allows FB account owners to connect a GPS capable mobile phone like iPhone to thier Facebook accounts and friends can see in their wall their exact location real time any where in the planet.

This is both a useful and fun service at the same time for close friends and relatives who would want to stay connected all the time. It can help businesses to track specific employees in the field as well.

Today, we do not yet have complete information as to how will Facebook earn money by providing free service like this, but obviously it is a attempt to compete with one of the Internets leading location detecting companies like Google.

While using this service wisely can be fun and useful, there are in the other hand a real danger once the FB service is not used carefully. It can be taken advantage by people who created a FB account so they can add hundreds of friends but having a very dark purpose. With your data not securely stored instead of a friend tracking your location, it’ll be a psycho killer who will be following your every move.

FB users are therefore advised to use their accounts wisely and to never upload sensitive private information you feel could be dangerous of evil people could get a hold of it. In using Places, extra caution is needed to make sure the setting is to allow only your close friends and relatives to see your real time location and not some nut on the Internet and you don’t even realize you are being followed already.

The Apple iPhone is one of the best phones that can be connected in FB when Places is already available for public usage.

And as owners of an iPhone we know that when you purchased iPhone insurance to cover our expensive mobile phone, we are protecting our selves from possible financial loss in case our iPhone was damaged, stolen or misplaced. This is the key important purpose of iPhone insurance.

Yet once you have decided to use FB’s new location service and upload your personal data and location for every one to see, this may sound creepy and scary, but you might as well get life insurance for your self too because you have just made your life 10 times more riskier and dangerous than before.

But fortunately, Facebook does allow a prudent user to be able to edit and choose who the right persons only that can see your location using Places in the even you do decide to register your iPhone and use this new and intriguing service.

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