More Clues About Apple's 'Find My Friends' Mobile Service

[StyxMaker]

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Wouldn't a 'find me some friends' social network be more useful?

 

[marksman]

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Sounds like a great service. My assumption would be an opt-it/opt-out and periodic location updates(every 15-30m?) or upon request.
If they could open it to non-apple devices(not likely) that would be an awesome way to interact with your friends.

People without iOS devices don't have friends

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Some hacker is probably going to use this to stalk people

Sadly I could see that being the case. Worse part is they will not use some security hole or something Apple could patch to stop it from happening. People are just way to free with giving away that infomation publicly and then they get freaked out that people can follow them every where.

I have Google Latitude and on that same token 99% of the time I have it turned off and I do not have any info sent to it. The few times I do use it I am very very selective who even has access to the info. Last time I used it was over a year ago and that was when I was going to visit a girl I was dating so she could keep track of were I was on the road so she could have a good ETA and knew when I was getting close but I leave it turned off.

For me a service like this would never really ever be turned on and I have a feeling that it will be a huge failure in the end since it will be linked only to Apple devices.

I doubt the demand is big to know where you are

 

[MattInOz]

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Wouldn't a 'find me some friends' social network be more useful?

I'm pretty sure there is an app for that already.
Depending what kind of friends your looking to make.


As others have said it sure looks like this may just be an Apple overlay on twitter than a whole new service in it's own right. That could be really useful.

 

[illitrate23]

Isn't this related to the already known twitter integration? Seems obvious to me, they wouldnt use the exact same terms for a competing service.

i thought this was far more likely too.
all those strings seem to be for following someone's status updates in twitter/ping/facebook/etc rather than tracking someone's physical location.