Facebook made a substantial change to the Nearby Friends function, which until recently showed the exact location of our friends on a map with our location. Due to the many controversies and accusations regarding spying on users, Facebook has decided to no longer display the exact location of users to their friends.
More precisely, if you now access Facebook's Nearby Friends function, you will no longer see the exact location of friends who are near you, but only an approximate distance. Those from Facebook finally decided to completely change the functionality of Nearby Friends, so that now we are told how far our friends are from us, without seeing it exactly on the map.
In this situation, we can send a Wave to the respective friends to let them know that we are near them, in case we want to meet them. Those from Facebook say that this method of communication is safer and more efficient and at the same time protects the privacy of users because it does not reveal their exact location.
Facebook no longer displays the exact location of friends
Facebook has been heavily criticized for the Nearby Friends feature, mainly due to the fact that certain people have been followed by friends they didn't want to meet. Nearby Friends has pretty much always been in the middle of a lot of controversy, so the decision to give up exact location is an excellent decision on the part of Facebook.
By making this change, those from Facebook bring the Nearby Friends function more to the attention of users by changing the location where the shortcut to the section is displayed. Facebook did not announce this change in any way, but only answered the journalists' questions regarding the change made, it being discovered by some of the users.
Having said that, if you use Nearby Friends, now no one will be able to locate you.
