Facebook implements personal, fan page and status update QR barcodes
It seems, within the last few minutes, Facebook has started to roll out QR barcodes on profile pages. I don’t mean your drunken and/or emo profile photos have been replaced by an ugly barcode — I mean you can generate barcodes to be used by your smartphone. You can now generate either a personal barcode or a ‘status QR barcode’. Facebook pages (fan pages) also have QR code generation.
The personal code makes sense — you could leave it stuck on a bathroom door, or on your resume/CV for example — but I can’t quite work out what a ‘status QR barcode’ might be. Is it for coded, hidden messages? For fan pages it makes perfect promotional sense — a band poster with a QR barcode on, for example.
A little digging shows that the QR codes are generated by m.facebook.com, so this is certainly a mobile-oriented service — but still, other than leaving your ‘status’ on a wall somewhere (imagine scanning someone’s QR code only to find out it says ‘LOL, made you look!’), I can’t work out what it’s for.
I’m sure someone will work it out soon.
[thanks to Sam for the tip!]
Update (08:52 EST): Ooh, they seem to have disappeared again… pro, Facebook!
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