Facebook's Find Friends Nearby: GPS lets you give nearby mobile users a Friendshake

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A mobile Facebook feature called _Find Friends Nearby,_ previously code-named _Friendshake,_ is coming out of development and will soon be on its way to your iOS or Android phone. Perhaps springing from [the social network][3]'s acquisition of [ambient social app][4] Glancee, it's still fairly primitive, merely navigating to a browser page on your device, where it will show you a list of other users within a given, undisclosed radius. Presumably, the benefit is to let you quickly add someone in your purview like [Find my Friends][5], although we're interested to see what privacy settings are on offer. You never know, Mr. Zuckerberg could be tempting the [privacy][6] gods -- and [governments][7] -- once [again][8].

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