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I remember google latitude had this feature years ago and I thought it was really cool, but they killed it because people complained about it.

I thought it was neat to be out at some family event or the mall etc. and get notices that your friends were nearby.

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It's still there in Google+, under locations.

Maybe I remember them switching it from opt-out to opt-in then? Did that ever happen?

I kind of wish it was opt-out by default, but I know that would probably cause a huge controversy. People are already collecting your location data anyway - might as well use it with your friends/people you'd actually want to have it.

Yeah I think that happened around the time they started sharing data between products. It's hella useful when it comes down to it (and you can be quite restrictive with your location in G+).

I remember I used to get notifications when people checked into places near me on Facebook.

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