This is an advertisement that should appeal to all Facebook users. However, here we are talking about removing many features of the site on the social platform, functions that were still in use and that some liked. But by disappearing, it involves less data collection. This alone is good news.
Concretely, at least eventually, “close friends” and many of the geolocation features will fall by the wayside. Facebook also communicates it itself to its users through a message in its app for Android and iOS. This option specifically made it possible to share your location with these “close friends” to find you. It will disappear after May 31, just like the various alerts that use location history or background location.
An important change that does not mean the end of data collection on Facebook. In fact, Meta explained in a press release that this will continue through location data…but for “other experiments.”
