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When will it just run in the background, so it'll tell me when I happen to be within 400 yards of a friend in NYC? Now that would be cool.
by savrajsingh 16y ago
When will it just run in the background, so it'll tell me when I happen to be within 400 yards of a friend in NYC? Now that would be cool.
- carbocation 16y agoI upvoted you because I agree and disagree. I agree because it would be totally cool if we both wanted that. It would be totally annoying if one of us actually wished to be private at that moment, or was in a rush, etc, and just forgot to turn off facebook.
- DanielN 16y agoI totally see why this is a fear. But actually I don't see a feature like this causing these kind of problems. How is it any different than receiving a text when you are busy or running into someone you know when you don't have time to chat. Everyone has times when they are busy and everyone has times when they aren't busy and want to be social.
- carbocation 16y agoI guess it's just like bumping into someone that you know when you don't have time to chat - but with a 50-fold increase in the radius of my personal sphere. I'd definitely give it a shot, at least, to see if I liked it.
- flipbrad 16y agoMy phone is going to need a 'private' toggle just like it has a 'silent mode' toggle - right on the home screen, or physical.
- SandB0x 16y agoYou could write a mobile Facebook app to take the stress out of restraining orders...
- nl 16y agoGoogle Latitude can do that. But that would mean you and your friend would have to use be using it, and the chances of that approach zero. (There's a joke there about how the chances of you having an actual friend in NYC approach zero too, but I'm going to leave that one..)
- acgourley 16y agoloopt does that
- revorad 16y agohttp://www.loopt.com/ http://www.loopt.com/