New Changes Coming to Facebook

Facebook is the social media platform that a majority of people uses. This platform is used for numerous things, including but not limited to posting and sharing pictures, updating your status as to what you are currently doing, live streaming, and asking friends and family for advice or recommendations for new places.

Facebook recently announced it will be adding some new features to the widely used social media app.  These new features include a recommendation option on a status, an easier way to find local events, and introducing a new way to connect with local businesses.

Lets take a closer look at these new Facebook features.

Recommendations

Since many users already turn to friends and family for recommendations, let it be for new restaurants, hair salons, or places to travel, Facebook is making it easier to ask for recommendations from your friends. Instead of having to post a status and ask for the best restaurants in town and sorting through comments, users will now be able to turn on a recommendations section when posting a new status. This will make it a lot easier for users to organize those recommendations all in one place.

Local Events

Facebook already has a section for events, where you can look for and discover events around you and see what events your friends will be attending. But now, it will be easier to find local events that would be of interest to you. Facebook has revamped the events bookmark; users will now be able to see and catch up on which events their friends are attending or hosting and look through event recommendations based on what is popular amongst your friends.

Interaction with Local Businesses

Facebook will also be introducing several new ways to interact with businesses, including the following:

• Order Food: Users will be able to order food directly from a business’ Facebook Page. The business must be using Delivery.com or Slice and users will be able to simply click the “Start Order” button to order their food. 
• Request an Appointment: For businesses that require booking appointments, such as a hair salon or a spa, users will be able to request a time and will also be able to see all the services the business offers. These businesses will then have to get back to the user via Messenger to confirm appointments. 
• Get a Quote: Some local bussiness’ Facebook Page will have the option of “Get Quote” button at the top of their Page that will allow users to instantly request a quote from that business. 
• Get Tickets to Movies and Events: Users will also be able to order movie tickets directly from the movie’s Facebook Page via Fandago. As for events, users will also be able to get tickets directly from the event page on Facebook, this is made possible through their partnership with Ticketmaster and Eventbrite. 

Facebook is now making it so much more convenient for users to do almost anything they need to do from just one app. There will soon be no need to jump from app to app to get certain things done.

All theses new features will be introduced to the US in the next couple of weeks and months, as well as other new features being introduced in the near future.