# Facebook adds location functionality with Facebook Places

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/08/23/facebook-adds-location-functionality-facebook-places/
- Published: 2010-08-23T07:53:00+01:00
- Author: Bryan Miller

Applications using the ability of smartphones and other mobile devices to pinpoint
your precise location at any time have been a key topic for discussion amongst digital
marketers over the last year or so, and were also something I covered in my [Digital Fundraising Hot Topics Session ](http://givinginadigitalworld.org/2010/07/12/the-fast-growing-potential-for-smartphone-fundraising/)
at this summer’s Institute of Fundraising National Convention here in London last
month.

Up to now, a lot of the location-based application chatter has focused on the new
breed of specifically designed location-based social networks like Foursquare and
Gowalla. However, it was only a matter of time before the global market leader in
social networking responded. Hence, last week we saw the launch of Facebook Places–
an extension to existing Facebook functionality that will enable smartphone wielding
Facebookers to share their location with their Friends, be alerted when Friends 
are close by, check-in to specific locations, and share details of good places with
others in their social network. [Click here to read more on givinginadigitalworld.org](http://givinginadigitalworld.org/2010/08/22/facebook-adds-location-functionality-with-facebook-places-but-only-in-the-us-for-now/)

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