Facebook: Easy to locate your friends; just click Nearby Friends feature!
Facebook
always provide something new and advance and to add to the basket here is
another feature for Android and IOS Faebook App. Company launched Nearby
Friends in 2014, which lets you see who is close to you but for this you and
your friend have to enable the functionality first.
Nearby
Friends was created by the Glancee location
sharing app team led by Andrea Vaccari that Facebook acquired in 2012. It adds a list of nearby friends to Facebook’s iOS
and Android app. It will also send notifications if you come within a short
distance of a friend, and if someone shares their precise location with you,
you’ll see it on a map.
To get your location,
Facebook will frequently pull your GPS coordinates. To minimize battery drain,
it will read your accelerometer and not pull location as often if you’re
staying still. Facebook’s testing says Nearby Friends 0.3% to 0.4% per hour.
This is less than the 0.7% per hour.
Before we give you
more details, lets first see how to enable this feature...
Faebookapp
>> click on more icon button (in the bottom-right corner) >> click
on Nearby Friends (located just above “nearby places”)
What’s so good about it?
It’s Optional:
Company
take a note to emphasize that the feature is entirely optional so it’s off by
default and even if we turn it on, we have to choose what groups of friends to
share our location with so that’s means both the parties have to have the
feature turned on to get the proper proximity of location.
Share and Care:
If you care to use this feature then probably
it can save your money. Like the company said, two friends were on landed on
same airport but from a different flight. When they used this feature, they
shared same Taxi to reach their destinations. Now is it worth a Try?
Minimum Battery Use:
Facebook
says that the feature uses minimal battery life as the consumption is about 0.4
percent of your phone battery per hour. Similarly, if the battery is below 20
percent then the feature stops and also push notification gets limited. Nearby
friends will notify when your friend is visiting your city.
Helping Tool:
It
does not buzz every time like when you go for your work and have colleagues
nearby. Nearby Friends is all about helping you find friends with this helping Facebook
find you as it tracks location in every 15 minutes or so. If you are under 18 then you won’t get access
to this feature. This is a big help to parents.
Meeting
your long lost friend is easier now. This feature is a must try. Tell your
friend to enable and see how it works.
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Author: EshikaPunjabi
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