Mapping Your friends With Nearby Friends: Creepy or Fair Game? [Facebook]

Is Facebook Places not sufficiently immersing you inside the mundanity of your pals’ lives? Try Nearby Friends , an app that plots their check-ins-past and present-on Google Maps. Just don’t let any of them catch you using it.

In all truth, the app-certain to be a success among crazed, jealous ex-boyfriends everywhere-is purely using information that’s available because someone opted for it to be. And several prominent location services, together with Loopt and Latitude, already make it easy to seek out your pals on a map. But viewing a pal’s full geographical history, complete with destination-connecting lines, might raise an eyebrow among those worried about revealing too much of their whereabouts-though this set probably isn’t using Places to start with. [ Nearby Friends via ReadWriteWeb ]

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