Facebook to Launch Location Features Next Month

Facebook world’s largest social networking site is now decide to introduce some new features like geolocation based to its 400 million Facebook  users, Facebook users will from next month be able to track where their friends are at any given time, while a new Twitter feature will plot tweets on a Google Map, according to reports.

At Facebook’s yearly developer conference next month, dubbed f8, the social networking site plans to unveil a new feature allowing its 400 million users to share their current location with friends, The New York Times reported.

Facebook has been working on a location-based tool for close to a year, but decided to wait until the product was completely ready for mainstream adoption before announcing it, said the people with knowledge of the project.

Facebook is also going to make an API available to developers of third-party Facebook applications. This will let third-party apps get in on the location-sharing actions, too.

Now we have to wait for next month and ofical announcement from Facebook about this new Geolocation search option for Facebook user, we still have doubt on how this service work let’s hope we will get some more information from facebook on this Geolocation service.

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