Location based smack-down.

I stumbled across this article about location based social media today and thought it was interesting. Facebook is claiming, as of yesterday, to have a patent on location based social media. The problem is that Google had already purchased a very similar patent 2 years before. I think it is interesting that Facebook is saying something about it three years after the fact. I think its convenient that they are claiming the patent when location based social media use is at its peak.

Here is the link to the story:

http://www.businessinsider.com/sorry-facebook-google-already-had-a-patent-on-location-based-social-networks-2010-10