{"id":969,"date":"2010-08-19T00:16:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T04:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=969"},"modified":"2010-08-19T00:16:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T04:16:49","slug":"facebook-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/facebook-places","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Launches Location Sharing Feature &#8216;Places&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-970\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-970\" title=\"Facebook Places\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/fbplaces-300x143.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/fbplaces-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/fbplaces-150x71.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/fbplaces.png 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Credit: Facebook\/CNET)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Facebook users are about to get a better idea of where their friends are.<\/p>\n<p>At an invite-only press event at the company&#8217;s headquarters in Palo Alto, California, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new service called &#8220;Places&#8221; that will let users share their location with one another and more easily discover what&#8217;s around them from within the social network.<\/p>\n<p>The feature will begin rolling out to users on Thursday, and centers around mobile devices, which Facebook members can use to send their location to Facebook the same way they&#8217;d post an update. Included are privacy controls that let users choose who can see it, which by default will be set to friends only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook unveiled a new service called &#8220;Places&#8221; that will let users share their location with one another and more easily discover what&#8217;s around them from within the social network. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[34,69],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-computers","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}