We have all been there: you are walking around, checking your phone to make sure you know what is going on, when all of a sudden your connection is lost – and your life flashes before your eyes.

Well, maybe not the life-flashing part, but we all have undoubtedly experienced the infuriating moment when your phone becomes even more useless than a device that can only make calls. Not only is this frustrating and irksome to you, it also hurts social platforms – every moment you are not on their site is a minute of advertising revenue lost to them.

Facebook gets this, in a very real way. Since last year, Facebook has been developing a “Find Wi-Fi” feature, and even released it as a beta run in several countries.

Now, Facebook is ready to keep its 2 billion plus users connected globally, with their release of Find Wi-Fi made available to ALL Android and iPhone users. The process is simple enough, as outlined by Facebook:

Find Wi-Fi helps you locate available Wi-Fi hot spots nearby that businesses have shared with Facebook from their Page. So wherever you are, you can easily map the closest connections when your data connection is weak.

To find Wi-Fi hotspots, open your Facebook app, click on the “More” tab and then “Find Wi-Fi.” Once in the “Find Wi-Fi” tab you may need to turn it on. You can then browse the closest available hotspots on a map, and learn more about the businesses hosting them.

While the appeal of being able to more easily find Wi-Fi hotspots while traveling is lovely, Facebook of course didn’t mention some of the caveats and subliminal reasoning behind this development:

[P]art of the impetus for the tool could be the emphasis on Facebook Live – you can’t ‘go live’ without a reliable connection. By making it easier for people to stay connected, it increases their prospects of broadcasting – though Facebook notes that the main use case is for people while traveling or those in areas of low connectivity.

To get your business listed, you need to have a router that supports Facebook Wi-Fi – there’s a full listing of supported devices here. You then need to connect your Page via Facebook Wi-Fi – the process is different for each device. Once you’re connected, your Page will show up when users go searching – the process itself is fairly straight-forward, but again, you do need to have a router that supports Facebook connection.

Nonetheless, the idea is certainly one that could benefit both businesses and individual users. It is an ode to capitalism that while acting in its own self-interest, Facebook is also offering a mutually beneficial solution for both business looking to increase their exposure, and individuals desperately trying to get their smart phones to stay connected.

Next time you find yourself trapped somewhere as mind-numbing as a fishing museum, and are desperately trying to use your Wi-Fi to get the heck out of there, give Facebook’s Find Wi-Fi a try.