![]() ![]() My Android phone’s location history for that same day. You can get this extension here and play around with it on your message data. I wrote a Chrome extension for the Facebook Messenger page ( ) that scrapes all this location data and plots it on a map. What I realized was that almost every other message in my chats had a location attached to it, so I decided to have some fun with this data. ![]() However, I didn't realize how much data about me Messenger was revealing to the people I chatted with until last week when I began tinkering with my message history.Īs you may know, when you send a message from the Messenger app there is an option to send your location with it. I quickly found that it was the easiest way to keep in touch with old high school friends, contact people I had just met, organize impromptu poker games with people I hardly knew, and everything in between. When I came to college Facebook Messenger became an integral part of my digital life. ![]() Furthermore, Facebook has deactivated location sharing from the desktop webpage so the extension will not work. Stalking Your Friends with Facebook MessengerĮdit: At Facebook’s request I have again deactivated the *official* version of the extension. ![]()
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