Facebook has been pretty lazy when it comes to rolling out it’s services in other countries especially in India (considering we still don’t have Questions as yet). So I decided to give it a shot and try Facebook Places using a freely available VPN tool. It seemed like a cake walk. Just go ahead and install any free VPN tool, access Facebook’s mobile site and use places. Facebook Places automatically picks up the location on the map.
Now here’s the tricky part. While I could bypass Places using a VPN (US based IP address), it somehow detected my location to be exactly where I was (in India of course). Now that’s something you can’t beat and I respect Facebook for this.
While it may still take some time for Facebook Places to roll out in the country, there is no doubt that it’ll make some impact. FourSquare doesn’t have an official presence here in terms of partnerships but people are happily checking into eating joints, hotels, offices and sometimes their own bathrooms in the hope that someday their mayorship status will bring them some light.
Article by Harry
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