Facebook's mobile app gets better every year, with a streamlined design, plenty of social features, and helpful tools for sharing photos, links and more from your phone.
Facebook said that it will soon remove your messages from the main
Facebook mobile app, and instead force you to use Facebook Messenger.
For now, though, you can still chat with friends from the app.
Nearby Friends is a brand-new feature in the newest version of
Facebook's Android app. Using GPS, it shows the approximate location of
your friends, grouped by city. It's similar to Apple's Find My Friends
feature, which uses your phone's contacts and GPS to plot your friends'
and family's locations on a map.
Once you set it up, you'll see a
list of other friends using Nearby Friends and their approximate
locations. It'll say what city they're in and a general location, such
as a neighborhood, if available. You'll see how far away, in miles, they
are from you, and how long ago, in minutes, they were in that area.
Tap the tiny icon in the top right of the screen to reveal a chat menu, which lists which of your friends are online right now. You can also get to your Nearby Friends list from here. Unfortunately, you can no longer send private messages in the app.
