The world's largest social network recently updated new features for Facebook users around the world. This is a complementary, new development based on positioning technology on current smart mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad or tablet. It is known that this feature is called Nearby Friends - Friends around here, and Facebook users in Vietnam can also use this feature.
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This is a very interesting new feature that allows Facebook users to find each other within a certain range. Previously, Nearby Friends were used, but the results it brought were not very satisfactory, until now.
How to use the search feature around here of Facebook
Obviously this is an extremely handy feature, which Facebook should have perfected earlier. Because, unlike the search around here on Zalo , BeeTalk , or some other free messaging apps. Facebook will send you a text message notifying you if it finds any of your friends nearby, and vice versa.
And if you still do not know how to activate and use this feature, let Download.com.vn help a hand!
Step 1: You access the Facebook application on your phone, click the More icon in the bottom right corner of the screen. Then click See More ..., select Nearby Friends.
Step 2: Select Next and Turn on in the next two interfaces, you can also choose which group of objects you want to share the location in the Share with section.
Step 3: Allow Facebook to access your current location so the search for friends is started.
Click OK and Allow to allow Facebook to access the current location
Step 4: Select a friend to share any location by clicking the location icon - Location in the circle . When a small notification appears, click on Share to share the location with friends . Once completed, the friend's location icon will be green as shown below.
In addition, we can invite friends to use this feature by clicking the plus icon to add them.
Attention:
- This feature only works if people who want to search for each other turn on Locations and are activating Nearby Friends.
- If we are afraid of misusing information, we can delete the data stored in the Settings section.
- To ensure safety and privacy for users, Nearby Friends will not automatically activate when users turn on location like on other applications.
- Besides being able to send notifications to users, Nearby Friends can also remember frequently used places.
- Once activated, must also use manual methods to turn off.
The article above introduced you to the effect and how to use the Nearby Friends feature on Facebook. Along with updating video calling capabilities for Facebook Messenger and video calling on Facebook , hopefully users will have more interesting experiences about the world's largest social network.
I wish you successful implementation!