Places allows you to share where you are with friends, and what's going on around you. Lastly, Places keeps little stories tags on locations that have been visited. Link photos, images, stories and profile updates to a location that any of your friends can see. Lets take a peek into Facebook Places. Saturday night and fancy a dance? Places allows you to see what nearby clubs your friends are at. Fancy a coffee? You see your friend Sarah is nearby, how about calling her on Facebook for free with the Vonage I-phone to Facebook app. You meet up with Sarah and decide you're both wanting not just an average coffee, but a good, hard, strong one. You check out your mobile Facebook and see that Joe's coffee has all sorts of bad reviews attached. Guess Joe's is off the list. Hey, everyone's posts say Campos is great and Ronnie and Eric are there at the moment. Let's go say hi!
How does this work? When updating to Facebook you will have the option of updating your location, and your location feeds out to your friends. See the first exclusive pictures below.
Facebook looks to take a serious, great-white-sized bite out of the other location-based platforms. Foursquare can't be happy about this announcement. Social gaming that was a central feature of Foursquare is sure to see continued growth with Facebook's large social gaming user-base. Another step towards Facebook world domination? Remember, click the banner to vote Mark Zuckerburg for Global President!
