Scrambling to keep users interested Facebook has to constantly give users a reason to depend on the use of their site and so far have been quite successful in doing so as earlier this month Facebook was the most visited website on the internet for the first time ever even more than Google search. Not all the websites Google own and manage (they own the site your on now Blogspot.com, Youtube etc) but rather the ever most popular www.google.com.

Thus giving the Facebook management team even more reason to constantly be offering new features or making Facebook easier to use. So their next move which might not come as surprise to some as they have been use to it if they use social network websites like Twitter or Blackberry Messenger. Facebook's newest feature will be a Location Based feature allowing friends to identify your location and present it on your profile, sounds horrible?

Well it's not all bad this would actually allow for checking in at certain locations like restaurants or business meetings or even work if you wanted to prove to your boss you were early. This can also allow for parents being satisfied that they kids are at home and safe or just simply to show off on your fellow teenage friends that you are cool as you brag to be and your actually at the concert you said your going to go to.

Then one tends to think but does this good outweigh the bad of putting your location on your profile for thousands to see? Well I love this website these guys created called Please Rob Me it's a twitter based website which shows the dangers of tweeting about leaving the house or telling everyone your next move and then the location based feature shows potential thieves where exactly you live, its exactly as the website is saying your begging someone to rob you, so most definitely the dangers are there for such a feature being implemented on the largest social network in the world but as with everything Facebook will privatize everything allowing you the user to hide your information from whoever it is that you do not want to see your location. Guess all we will have to do is sit around and wait to see how this feature works but I think it's a good move by Facebook because now more than ever they need to do what's necessary to still matter.

Andre Z. South

http://foursquare.com/ - A Location Based Social Website.

More information on this feature:

http://www.cdt.org/blogs/cdt/over-sharing-and-location-awareness - Blog about Location Sharing