Why Facebook Wants To Know Where You Are At All Times

May 10, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Facebook Waze Purchase Would Add Mapping Horsepower, Revenue Opportunities For years, technology companies have touted the advent of a new fusion of your social habits and mapping. You're driving home from work and an alert pops up on your smartphone to tell you that a close friend is at a restaurant just off your route. Or you're on a road trip and your smartphone dings, offering you a discount -- and turn-by-turn directions -- to the closest Starbucks. Continue reading... Yeah, Your Risque Snapchat Photos Don't Actually Delete Scandalous Facebook App Is Not THAT Anonymous Addictive Google Street View Game Takes You Around The World Inside An Evangelical Megapastor's Massive Soul-Saving Social Media Machine Worst. Photoshop. Ever. AT&T Will Pay $18.25 Million In Lawsuit Settlement LOOK: Amazing Interactive Map Shows Every Local Dialect In The U.S. Why Facebook Is Interested In GPS Apps LOOK: Amazing Interactive Map Shows Every Local Dialect In The U.S. Inside An Evangelical Megapastor's Massive Soul-Saving Social Media Machine Pandora Founder Emails With Unhappy Musician DON TAPSCOTT My BB's Back and There's Gonna Be Trouble! Blackberry? Are you kidding me? I converted to the iPhone ages ago. Except that I've been trying out Blackberry's newest phone, the Q10, for a week. And guess what? I love it. Like a phoenix from the ashes, Blackberry may actually be making a comeback. Continue reading... RANDI ZUCKERBERG My Son Wears Pink: To Share or Not to Share? As parents, we need to ask ourselves whether we're posting photos for our children or for ourselves. And if you're posting it for yourself, wait a little bit before pressing the "share" button so you can really think about if it's in your child's best interest. Continue reading... DAVID K. LEVINE Googazon: The Web 3.0 Will the next Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds or Jimmy Wales please step forward? Because I don't want information at my fingertips -- I want action at my fingertips, and I mean my fingertips. Continue reading... OMER ROSEN Life Without a Cellphone Before the cellphone age, non-emergency workers did not customarily carry around beepers in case of emergency unless they were drug dealers. Now, any slight variation or interference in one's life-pattern can qualify as emergency, proof of the need for the almighty e-slab. Continue reading... ARIANNA HUFFINGTON Small Screens, Big Business In this week's issue, Gerry Smith looks at one of the less savory effects of recent technological innovation: the billion-dollar black market for stolen smartphones. And Lila Shapiro considers the career of former New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey, nearly a decade after he resigned with the admission that he was "a gay American." Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003