Mobile Devices
Facebook launches ‘Places’ location-enabled service![](https://eu-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/blt3d4d54955bda84c0/bltf0655c07d2de51ae/654d17f28d75230407b3ae4e/FB-Places-Square.jpg?width=700&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale)
Mobile Devices![](https://eu-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/blt3d4d54955bda84c0/bltf0655c07d2de51ae/654d17f28d75230407b3ae4e/FB-Places-Square.jpg?width=700&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale)
Facebook launches ‘Places’ location-enabled serviceFacebook launches ‘Places’ location-enabled service
Facebook, the largest social network in the world with more than half a billion users, has launched a location-enabled service element that lets smartphone users publicise their whereabouts through the site. Users can also tag friends who are with them, and locate other friends that may be nearby. The service chimes with many of the location-based service concepts touted within the mobile industry when LBS first rose to prominence a decade or more ago.