Users of social network sites like Facebook will soon be sharing their exact whereabouts with their friends in real-time, owing to new technology that uses the mobile phone as a tracking device, experts say.

A new social network site, Gypsii, which launched this week at a phone industry trade show in Barcelona, allows users to search for and identify their contacts, be they in the neighbouring street or across the ocean...

The software, available for the moment on only top-end phones, enables users to find people, places and events in their local area, as well as share photos, videos and audio files with their friends...

..."Only a small slice of the market would be happy to share information of this kind, but then, when you look at Facebook, you've already got people putting their address, telephone number, photos and other highly personal information there."...

 

Full Story: 'Friend locator' could become next craze for social networkers Source: AFP, February 13th, 2008 Author: Adam Plowright Added on February 22nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm, by Judy He