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Location-based tracking is common to all smartphones, for good reason or bad. The popular location-based service company Foursquare has an app so you can check in at various locations to receive discounts, become Mayor, and see who else might be there. DealLeak, which aggregates deals from the likes of Groupon and Living Social, needs your location in order to offer local discounts on products and services to you. How many location-based service apps do you have on your smartphone? How often do you use them and why?

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There are many different applications that use location-based tracking.Frankly speaking, my smartphone does not have much app for location tracking and I seldom have used them.

I have four location-based application on my smartphone, that are, Google Maps, GPS, Foursquare and Facebook.

Facebook “check in” function is a good app for me to show my happiness with others when I go to somewhere special or events. Sometimes, I can tag my friends in to share the joy or excitement.

The GPS and Google Maps are for the convenience to search a location where I never been. However, some places are not updated in the systems which has made me lost in the town few times.

Hence, I have made a habit to check the location properly one day before departure. It will help to avoid lost in somewhere similar location place name but totally different locations.

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