Social Media

All over the world social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, are becoming more popular everyday. Whether it's people tweeting about their day at work or businesses trying to promote themselves everyone seems to have an online presence. Most use social media to stay in touch with friends and family while also sharing photos, opinions and what they are doing with their lives.

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With each site having different features one is common to many; the ability to include and share your location in a post. You can add your location to tweets, vines, status updates, basically whatever you want! Geolocation is when anything connected to the internet, for example a phone or laptop, has its physical location identified. This can be done by GPS (which is on pretty much all smartphones) or by the place that you are at, which could be a festival or restaurant for example.

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Geosocial networking, is slightly different as it isn't just about sharing your location, but also allowing you to interact with other users relative to their location. This is what Facebook uses when they suggest friends as they compare not just mutual friends but also everyone's locations, another example of an app using location is Tinder.
In May this year new software was designed called the 'Marauders Map' which allows people who were messaging each other on the Facebook messenger app to pinpoint the exact location (with the time too) of the other people in conversations. Since messenger automatically tracks location it allowed people to track their friends which is a huge issue with privacy, the biggest problem with geolocation as people can find out exactly where you are in the world.