Abstract: Global Positioning System (GPS) data and/or functionality of various users' mobile devices may be used to enable the users to share with their friends or contacts their current location in real time or near real time. There may be an individual graphical marker for each user that is presented on a map corresponding to the current location of the user's device. The graphical marker may represent an online social network identity of the user. This interactive graphical marker is presented at a location on the map corresponding to the current physical location of the user's device based on the associated GPS data and/or other location data. If the location of the device moves, this is shown on the map by the associated graphical marker making corresponding movements on the map. A user may set a beacon on the map at a location at which an event is to occur and connections or friends of the user will be sent information indicative of the location on the map and associated GPS directions.