When we founded loopt a year ago, we were excited about the possibilities of being able to find your friends on the go. We also knew we needed to spend a lot of time thinking about how to build a service that addressed all of the important safety, security and privacy associated with location services.
As such, we've built the service as a completely opt-in, private network. Loopt is a bunch of private networks of friends. In order to invite a user to be your friend, you have to know their phone number. You can't even browse their profile or message them without establishing friendship. Even when you've mutually agreed to be friends, you can turn off location sharing for everyone or individual friends.
There also seems to be a bit of confusion as to how our service actually works. loopt doesn't integrate directly with your phone's contact list to automatically share your location as this post suggests. loopt is a downloadable app that lets you see where your friends are on a map on your phone (and some other cool stuff). Also, if we can't get GPS, we can always get a network-based location.
Thanks for sharing all your comments. Please keep in touch with us and drop us a note if you have any questions or comments (feedback@loopt.com)
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When we founded loopt a year ago, we were excited about the possibilities of being able to find your friends on the go. We also knew we needed to spend a lot of time thinking about how to build a service that addressed all of the important safety, security and privacy associated with location services. As such, we've built the service as a completely opt-in, private network. Loopt is a bunch of private networks of friends. In order to invite a user to be your friend, you have to know their phone number. You can't even browse their profile or message them without establishing friendship. Even when you've mutually agreed to be friends, you can turn off location sharing for everyone or individual friends. There also seems to be a bit of confusion as to how our service actually works. loopt doesn't integrate directly with your phone's contact list to automatically share your location as this post suggests. loopt is a downloadable app that lets you see where your friends are on a map on your phone (and some other cool stuff). Also, if we can't get GPS, we can always get a network-based location. Thanks for sharing all your comments. Please keep in touch with us and drop us a note if you have any questions or comments (feedback@loopt.com)