The advancement in geographical information system (GIS) made the geosocial networking born. Such networking is enriched by geographic services such as geo tagging and geo coding by using coordinates taking from global positioning system (GPS) technology (Ruiz Vicente et al., 2011).

Geo tagging is using geographic metadata to different media such as photo and video. Geo tagging technology is really useful because it gives the exact location of a friend who checked in on to a service. On the other hand, geo codding is the process of adding location information by geographic coordination to identify the addresses such post code or street name etc.

The Geosocial networking is matching users with their place such as (meeting groups, concerts, restaurants etc…) to socialize and facilitating meeting groups and plan activity. Also it gives the opportunity to meet others who are geographically closer and who have similar interests. It is also increase business ability to target more audience and find out what is near you is much easier

However, some times this type of technology leads to privacy invasion by disseminating too much personal information on the web. Pleaserobme.com is a website that criticize ironically to make people aware of oversharing.

Geosocial Networking Concept (Ruiz Vicente et al., 2011)

What is missing in the existing social networking now is building acommunity in real life. This can be achieved by Small.World through using geosocial networking and also enabling friends of friend to see your activities to broaden the network. Meeting people’s with the same interest in the around geographic location give you more options to make more friends in real life.

 Refrences 

Ruiz Vicente, C., Freni, D., Bettini, C. and Jensen, C. (2011). Location-Related Privacy in Geo-Social Networks. IEEE Internet Comput., 15(3), pp.20-27.