Facebook Places has officially launched. Following in the steps of services like Foursquare and Gowalla, Places is Facebook’s venture into the geolocation space. Basically, it’s a check-in tool where users can notify their online friends of their whereabouts offline. One distinct feature of Places is the ability to tag friends who are in the same location. Mashable has created A Field Guide to Using Facebook Places to get you going. It shares important tweaks for the service if privacy is an issue for you. I could see this being fun for Tweetups and conferences. What do you think?
I’m interested. I use foursquare a little but in my area so few people know about it I really only use it to post to facebook – so if facebook provides a way to do it, I think I would.
Since Facebook has such a huge and captive audience, I wouldn’t be surprised if more people start using geo services on their recommendation alone.