ETCentric previously reported that a new GPS-based Facebook feature called “Find Friends Nearby” was coming out of development and would be available on smartphones running iOS and Android.
Also called “Friendshake,” the app was quietly made available on Monday. We have an update to this story.
Just hours after launching the new app, Facebook took it down, telling Wired magazine: “This wasn’t a formal release — this was just something that a few engineers were testing. With all tests, some get released as full products, others don’t.”
The app quickly received the nickname the “Stalker App,” because as The Hollywood Reporter notes, “When an app uses GPS to tell strangers that you’re nearby, it’s going to raise privacy concerns, the same ones that surfaced about other geographically social apps like Glancee, which was acquired by Facebook two months ago.”
Facebook is emphasizing that this app release was only a test, not a product launch.
ETCentric previously reported that a new GPS-based Facebook feature called “Find Friends Nearby” was coming out of development and would be available on smartphones running iOS and Android.
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