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Google Maps has today announced a new feature to allow you to share your location with others. While that might seem creepy, it's not the first to add this type of functionality. Facebook tells you when a friend is nearby — it even lets you "wave" at them and gives you the option to send a message if they holler back. Foursquare's Swarm lets you check in wherever you are and both Lyft and Uber give you the option of seeing where your friend is if they share their ride location with you.
Now Google Maps will let you tell your friends where you are and give them directions to your location. It will also let you pick a special friend (like a family member, spouse or love interest, for example) to share your location with long-term.
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You're working under a slight handicap. You happen to be human.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday March 26 2017, @09:52PM (1 child)
I'm convinced google is running a long research project combining google rewards (pay you pocket change for filling out questionnaires) with google location data.
Probably 90% of my google rewards questions are "Did you visit the following stores recently" and then what day did I visit and how much did the service suck. They know darn well from my tracking data where I've gone. So the true research project is likely some kind of honesty study. Is this dude gonna BS us or not?
I spend so little money on apps that I can pay for them with google rewards. Its interesting how little money I spend on apps. In 2008 or so I must have blown $200+ on games and stuff for my ipad-touch and I suspect I spent less than $5 in 2016 on my android phone apps. I wonder if all those app devs still think they're going to be billionaires. Probably.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Nerdfest on Sunday March 26 2017, @11:41PM
Their tracking is sometimes not perfect, so you were in the vicinity of a few stores and they ask which one, and then you do a survey. Sometimes I get a survey just because I drove past a place.