Facebook Friends Are Now Physically Accessible With 'Nearby Friends' Feature

Your Facebook friends are now looking for you in the real world, using the Anroid app’s new feature – Nearby Friends, which assumes that you have more than one friend. Don’t worry anti-social Facebook users, there are ways to turn off this feature, especially if you’re trying to avoid professional Facebook stalkers. Nearby relationships are bi-directional.

The feature is getting a slow roll-out, and unlike a lot of terrible Facebook updates, we think it’s a refreshingly different take an location-based social notifications.

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