Facebook 3.2 Update Includes “Places” To Stalk Friends

Facebook for the iPhone is one of the best apps out there. You can easily keep in touch with friends and “Like” as many posts as you can on the live news feed. Want to lose an hour of life? Just launch the Facebook iPhone app and you’ll beg yourself for mercy.

The latest Facebook iPhone update, version 3.2 brings some new features. One of major features is the “Places” option, where you can let your friends know where you are (and vice versa) and stalk them. It’s literally taking Facebook stalking to a whole new level.

I downloaded the 3.2 update and it busted my Facebook as nothing would load. I reinstalled the app and now it seems Facebook is offline as I can’t login on my iPhone. I am happy to see that this update includes background uploading for iOS4 and the ability to set the privacy of individual status updates.

It appears that Places is not live in Canada yet.

Nevertheless, here’s what’s new in the 3.2 update:

New features:
– Places. Use Places to see where your friends are and share where you are.
– You can set the privacy of individual status updates.
– See all recipients of inbox messages.
– (iOS 4) Upload photos and videos in the background.

Bug fixes:
– Fixed a delay when commenting on a post or posting a status update.
– Fixed some Notes display bugs.
– Fixed some reliability bugs in News Feed.

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az
az
15 years ago

It says “This feature will be available in your region soon. Thank you for your patience.” (In Vancouver)

ken cormier
15 years ago

apparently places does not work in Canada?

Max
Max
15 years ago

Same here in Quebec… Not available.

Max
Max
15 years ago

Tipb said they get the same not available error even in US.

Penseur99
Penseur99
15 years ago

Can’t loggin anymore..did the same thing uninstall & reinstall…it’s just not working!

TeenWolf
TeenWolf
15 years ago

Facebook available for mr as well. You think it has something to do with te jailbreak on 4.0? My iPad handled the update just fine.

Ihavealife
Ihavealife
15 years ago

“Facebook for the iPhone is one of the best apps out there. You can easily keep in touch with friends and “Like” as many posts as you can on the live news feed. Want to lose an hour of life? Just launch the Facebook iPhone app and you’ll beg yourself for mercy”

Really? You have to get outside more, go fishing, go bike riding without your phone or laptop, go hiking into a mountain range, again without your phone or laptop. Do something. Why do you feel the need to let everyone know what your doing, and why do you need to know. Can you have a life on your own?

cid388
cid388
15 years ago

I don’t know why its Not available in my region as Places for Facebook has support for similar services like Foursquare, Gowalla, and Yelp. I use Foursquare already and its no problem what so ever. Also the app is still quite buggy and crashes… Not a really good update as far as i can see…

Guest
Guest
15 years ago

This coming from the guy posting on an iPhone blog!!! Your just as bad as the rest of us.

Icer
Icer
15 years ago

Not working on your jailbroken device? Goto sbsettings > more > mobile substrate addons > disable the bitesms one

 Xaroc
15 years ago

I haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, but I hope it has the option to disable location status. I’m not a big fan of announcing that I’m not home, so breaking in to my house would be relatively easy lol.

Ps: off topic but I love the new mobile disqus look, very nice but I appear to be missing the option to share my post with Facebook and twitter.

Mat
Mat
15 years ago

for all of you not able to log in , this fixed it , I can now log in :)) Thanks Icer

Mat
Mat
15 years ago

Not working on your jailbroken device? Goto sbsettings > more > mobile substrate addons > disable the bitesms one , It worked for me, try this !

jpottle
jpottle
15 years ago

But, what does disabling the bitesms “mobile substrate addon” do? I use biteSMS (more than Facebook ) so I don’t want it to stop working. Also, I have two biteSMS related things in mobile substrate addons – biteSBarClient and biteSMSsb. Which one needs to be disabled – or both?

Mike. S
Mike. S
15 years ago

Mine says its not available in my region yet.

Anonymous
Anonymous
15 years ago

Don’t plan to use it… like FourSquare much better: much more selective.

JohnnyCanuck
JohnnyCanuck
15 years ago

Of course not. Canada isn’t a place. It’s just a piece of frozen tundra located north of the centre of the universe.

Bdobson
Bdobson
15 years ago

Providing Facebook with your exact location seems like a great idea. Considering how well they have treated our data in the past this seems like a great way to go.

Adam
Adam
15 years ago

Creepy lol

az
az
15 years ago

From The Facebook Blog (http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=418175202130):
“Places is only available in the United States right now. But we expect to make it available to more countries and on additional mobile platforms soon.”

Matt
Matt
15 years ago

Is that what determines having a life? Well then you forgot to mention “reading and responding to comments left on a website dedicated to a phone.”

Turtle
Turtle
15 years ago

the people who most have a life, spend the most time on facebook.

Cyberdeath
Cyberdeath
15 years ago

I don’t have sbsettings but it still didn’t work, removed iphonedelivery and it works now!

Penseur99
Penseur99
15 years ago

Yes I do have a jailbroken device but bitesms is not in my option in sbsettings.

Marco_p_26
Marco_p_26
15 years ago

if u have bitesms u gotta go disable it to go on facebook but if u wanna use bitesms u gotta go re enable it but both dont work together so well

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