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Facebook’s Nearby Friends feature will be saying goodbye along with other location-based functionalities on the platform. Why though?
Facebook says that it is killing off two of its location-based features with Nearby Friends and Weather alerts set to be disabled after May 31.
Thus far, Facebook is only quietly announcing the sweeping data-minimization move via in-app prompts and emails to users.
Meta-owned Facebook announced to its users on Thursday that it would be discontinuing its Nearby Friends functionality.
FACEBOOK began alerting users Thursday that it is axing some features that amass data about users' whereabouts.The U.S. social media giant says that N