{"id":42206,"date":"2010-03-11T14:44:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=5935"},"modified":"2010-03-11T14:44:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:44:02","slug":"pros-cons-of-using-facebook-twitter-geo-location-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/pros-cons-of-using-facebook-twitter-geo-location-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Pros &amp; cons of using Facebook, Twitter geo-location features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/03\/mapwithredpushpin21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5936\" style=\"float: left;margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px;margin-top: 6px;margin-bottom: 6px\" title=\"mapwithredpushpin2\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/03\/mapwithredpushpin21.jpg\" alt=\"Red push pin on a map of SanFrancisco\" width=\"180\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>Any day now, you&#8217;ll be able to let your Facebook friends and Twitter followers know where you are when you post status updates.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Ionescu&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/191151\/facebook_twitter_geolocation.html\" target=\"_blank\">article in PC World<\/a> says Facebook will start adding friend location starting next month, though it&#8217;s uncertain exactly how this will work. Twitter turned on its feature briefly this week and then turned it off. On the main stream, Twitter will show maps overlaying individual tweets, together with place names and your location. On both sites, the geo-location features will be optional.<\/p>\n<p>Ionescu offers three reasons for using them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To get social recommendation from real people<\/li>\n<li>To find relevant local news<\/li>\n<li>To find friends and cool people around you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His three reasons for not using them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Criminals are reading Facebook and Twitter status updates, too.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/blog\/when-you-tweet-you-might-end-up-on-pleaserobme-com\" target=\"_blank\">I wrote<\/a> about how unsuspecting Twitterers are showing up on sites like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/PleaseRobMe.com\" target=\"_blank\">PleaseRobMe.com<br \/>\n <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Even more advertising in your face<\/li>\n<li>The lack of control over who actually sees your location.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re planning to use the geo-location features, let&#8217;s hear why. If not, why not? Share details of how you&#8217;ll use these features in a PR campaign. Comment here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any day now, you&#8217;ll be able to let your Facebook friends and Twitter followers know where you are when you post status updates. Daniel Ionescu&#8217;s\u00a0article in PC World says Facebook will start adding friend location starting next month, though it&#8217;s uncertain exactly how this will work. Twitter turned on its feature briefly this week and\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/social-media\/pros-cons-of-using-facebook-twitter-geo-location-features\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social-media","7":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}