I'm not an avid Facebook user, though I do have an account that aggregates some of my activity elsewhere on the web (Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, etc.). I also have a Nokia Friend View account.

Friend View had potential. If you had lots of friends, and many of them used S60 phones, and they didn't live too far away, and they didn't mind broadcasting their whereabouts to you, and they installed the Friend View client and kept it running, there was a definite chance of finding yourself just around the corner from someone you hadn't seen for a while and getting together for coffee and a nice chat you would have otherwise missed.

Lacking nearly all of the above, and not being a coffee drinker anyway, Friend View didn't work out so well for me:


I never did bump into lcuk or qgil, my only friends.

Regardless, I had hoped for a Maemo client, as native (rather than web-based) Friend View would have been fantastic during Maemo Summits. "Hey, qole and Jaffa are just across the street in that seafood-pizza restaurant. Let's join them!"