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Nearby Friends will disappear from Facebook and other location features

Nearby Friends will disappear from Facebook and other location features

It will stop serving the Facebook Nearby Friends function (Photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo)

deadmatrix of Instagram and WhatsApp Facebookin informing users of the blue social network that at the end of May it will suspend some of its location-based services, including, Close friends.

“Nearby Friends” is an optional service, launched in 2014, used to receive Notifications when user contacts are nearby By tracking your location.

The site was also able to verify 9toMac, Users started receiving notifications from Facebook that included this Nearby Friends will be discontinued May 31 for iOS and Android It has been detailed that this tool will stop working on May 31.

The reference image for the Facebook meta (Photo: Illustration/Getty Images)
The reference image for the Facebook meta (Photo: Illustration/Getty Images)

In turn, Facebook indicated that other experiences such as weather alerts and location history will also disappear later this month. Facebook will discontinue the Nearby Friends feature at the end of the month. With this, he indicated that Users will be able to access and download the site history until August 1 this year In order to store your information. After that, the app will delete this data.

Finally, the company confirmed it It will continue to collect location data from users for “other experiences” And that tracking can be disabled from the privacy settings section of the app.

deadthe parent company of FacebookYou don’t just want to sell virtual reality headsetVideo chatting devices and online data glasses. right Now, company Mark Zuckerberg He wants people to try products in a physical store.

A view of the Facebook logo in a file photo (Photo: EFE/Julien De Rosa)
A view of the Facebook logo in a file photo (Photo: EFE/Julien De Rosa)

Meta has announced that it will open its first retail store on May 9. The 1,550-square-foot space will be located on the social network’s campus in Burlingame, California, in the United States, where employees will focus on metaversoVirtual worlds where people can work, play and socialize.

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The opening confirms the tech giant’s seriousness in developing consumer devices and capturing the likes The Google y applewhich also contains physical stores.

However, products such as virtual reality headsets and smart glasses that allow access to these virtual spaces are not yet widespread.

Meta hopes that the more people try Techniquewe will understand Why does Zuckerberg think the metaverse is a successor to Internet cell phone.

Mita will have its own physical store (Image: REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro/Illustration)
Mita will have its own physical store (Image: REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro/Illustration)

“Once people experience the technology, they can appreciate it better. If we do our job well, people should go and say to their friends, ‘You have to go see the Meta Store,'” he explained. Martin Gillardpresident of the Meta Store, said in a statement.

The store will offer products such as Meta’s first smart glasses with RayBanwhich allows you to take 30-second photos and videos.

People can also visit Facebook’s video chatting devices called Portal, which have grown in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic.

You can also try out the company’s latest VR headset, Quest 2, And people can play games like Beat Saber, Golf Plus, Real VR Fishing, and Supernatural on the device. The wall-to-wall curved LED screen displays what you see in virtual reality. The Meta Store will be open from Monday to Friday from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM and is located at 322 Airport Blvd.

(with information from EP)

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