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Facebook Should Allow Island Name in Hawaii Profile Locations

July 16, 2010 By Linda Sherman 2 Comments

The islands in the State of Hawaii are the equivalent of the difference between living in Los Angeles or San Francisco in the State of California. The distances may be shorter in some cases, but we do after all, have to fly between them.

Once we know what island you are on, we might care if you are east, west, north, south shore – but except for a few big, easy to identify cities like Honolulu and Hilo, city info is not that useful.

Not to mention that some city names, like Waimea, are repeated on different islands.

Facebook only allows members to list a city and state in their profile location.

Local search and geomarketing which benefits from zip codes, computer IP’s and geolocation platforms like Yelp for iPhone is related but a different issue.

Hawaii_map

Thank you to accessmaps.com for the map. Note distance between islands is not to scale.

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Filed Under: Featured, Kauai, Social Marketing Tagged With: facebook, geolocation, Hawaii

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Boomer Tech Talk Managing Editor, Linda Sherman is passionate about senior health care and healthy longevity. Start-ups and board service in this field are of interest. Linda has a distinguished background of international subsidiary CEO/CMO experience. These include CEO Club Med Japan, Barilla Japan and CMO Wal-Mart Japan. After setting up Coors Japan, Linda devised and implemented an innovative guerrilla-marketing plan for ZIMA in Japan that produced a lasting, profitable success. Linda Sherman has been featured and quoted in Forbes, The New York Times, Christian Monitor and other leading publications. Connect with Linda on Twitter and Instagram @LindaSherman.

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  1. Pat Graham-Block says

    October 9, 2010 at 9:26 am

    They just recently allowed cities other than Salisbury, MD on "The Eastern Shore of Maryland". Salisbury is 2 hours from where I live and definitely not the same place. 🙂 So, maybe the change is coming(?)

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  2. Linda Sherman Gordon says

    October 14, 2010 at 3:03 pm

    Great to hear Pat. Thank you for the feedback on Facebook city location settings

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