Glympse is a cool new social media tool that allows users to share their location with others. You can send a glympse to anyone you want and it allows that user to track your location in real time. You can input a destination, and a comment with your glympse as well.
One of the best parts about Glympse is that you don’t have to have the app for it to work. If you send someone a Glympse they can click on the link and it will open up a webpage with your location. When you send a glympse , it shows the recipient your location, direction your traveling, the path you are following, your speed, time until arrival, and estimated time until arrival.
Another useful aspect of Glympse is you can send someone a glympse and specify how long your location will show up. When the time you choose has passed, your location and tracks will disappear. This is a good safety and privacy feature. You can also choose whether to keep your glympse private, allowing only the person you sent it to, to view it, or you can choose to post a glympse to another social media network such as Facebook or Twitter. This allows all of your followers on those networks to see your glympse.You can also create Glympse Groups where a group of people all have access to each other’s locations. This could be useful if everyone is meeting at a restaurant or has an important meeting to attend.
Glympse is a great idea that doesn’t require any sign-up or registration so it makes getting started easy. By allowing people to see your real-time location and eta, people no longer have to wonder if you really are going to “be there in 5 minutes” or it can allow people to share their location so if they don’t show up when they said they were going to, others might know what happened to them. This could really be helpful for the outdoors. Imagine if Aaron Ralston had sent out a Glympse, there might not have been a “127 Hours”
The ease of use, combined with privacy, and functionality, make Glympse a great new social media tool to have.
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