62 Facts About Facebook Places

Originally, when users logged into Facebook Places, they were presented with a customizable version of their own profile.

In 2011, Facebook Places updated the News Feed to show top stories and most recent stories in one feed, and the option to highlight stories to make them top stories, as well as to un-highlight stories.

Facebook Places profiles have advanced privacy features to restrict content to certain users, such as non-friends or persons on a specific list.

At one point, Facebook Places had introduced the "Friend Wheel" to visualize the connections a user's friends had with other friends.

In July 2007, Facebook Places allowed users to post attachments to the wall, whereas previously the wall was limited to text only.

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Facebook Places later allowed users to insert HTML code in boxes attached to the wall via apps like Static FBML which has allowed marketers to track use of their fan pages with Google Analytics.

In September 2011, Facebook Places introduced "Timeline" at its developer conference, intended to revamp users' profiles in order to show content based on year, month and date.

In 2020, Facebook Places introduced "Make Your Avatar" which enables users to customize a virtual look-alike of yourself to use as stickers in comments as well as Messenger chats.

Facebook Places Messenger is an instant messaging service and software application.

In 2017, Facebook Places has added "Messenger Day", a feature that lets users share photos and videos in a story-format with all their friends with the content disappearing after 24 hours; Reactions, which lets users tap and hold a message to add a reaction through an emoji; and Mentions, which lets users in group conversations type @ to give a particular user a notification.

In March 2015, Facebook Places announced that it would start letting businesses and users interact through Messenger with features such as tracking purchases and receiving notifications, and interacting with customer service representatives.

Additionally, Facebook Places expanded the use of bots, incorporating group chatbots into Messenger as "Chat Extensions", adding a "Discovery" tab for finding bots, and enabling special, branded QR codes that, when scanned, take the user to a specific bot.

In September 2022, Facebook Places added the "Community Chats" function, allowing people in a Facebook Places group to chat between each other on Messenger and on the Messenger app.

Facebook Places events are a way for members to let friends know about upcoming events in their community and to organize social gatherings.

In February 2011, Facebook Places began to use the hCalendar microformat to mark up events, and the hCard microformat for the events' venues, enabling the extraction of details to users' own calendar or mapping applications.

In 2007, Facebook Places introduced the Facebook Places Marketplace, allowing users to post classified ads within sale, housing, and jobs categories.

In June 2021, the European Commission and Competition and Markets Authority launched antitrust probes over concerns that Facebook Places's Marketplace took advantage of data from competing services that advertise on the platform and used it to gain "an undue competitive advantage".

Facebook Places Notes was introduced on August 22,2006, as a blogging platform offering users the ability to write notes, attach photos, and optionally import blog entries from external sources.

In November 2010, Facebook announced "Deals", a subset of the Places offering, which allows for users to check in from restaurants, supermarkets, bars, and coffee shops using an app on a mobile device and then be rewarded discounts, coupons, and free merchandise.

Facebook Places Platform provides a set of APIs and tools which enable third-party developers to integrate with the "open graph", whether through applications on Facebook Places.

Tech blog Valleywag has criticized Facebook Places Applications, labeling them a "cornucopia of uselessness".

Facebook Places allows users to upload photos, and to add them to albums.

In May 2011, Facebook Places launched a feature to tag specific Facebook Places pages in photos, including brands, products, and companies.

In May 2016, Facebook Places started allowing users to upload and view 360-degree photos.

In May 2007, Facebook Places officially launched its video platform, allowing users to upload recorded videos or livestream videos from their webcams.

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In December 2014, Facebook Places began rolling out functionality for business Pages to pin a video to the top of their Videos tab.

In January 2015, Facebook Places published a report detailing a significant growth in video viewing on the platform, specifically highlighting the fact that Facebook Places has seen an average of one billion video views every day since June 2014.

In September 2015, Facebook Places announced that it would begin showing view counts for publicly posted videos.

Facebook Places updated its mobile app to provide a dedicated section for showcasing current and recent live broadcasts.

Facebook Places Live was used by the perpetrators of an incident in which four black young adults kidnapped and tortured a mentally disabled white male.

Facebook Places Live was used by the perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque shootings to broadcast the attack on Al Noor Mosque.

In September 2015, Facebook Places expanded the availability of the Mentions app to journalists and other verified pages, and gave users of the app the ability to post exclusively to their Facebook Places followers rather than both followers and friends.

Facebook Places Moments was a private photo sharing app launched by Facebook Places in 2015 but discontinued on February 25,2019.

In 2018, Facebook Places launched Facebook Places Gaming officially on June 1,2018, with a pool of gaming streamers including Darkness429, Stonemountain64, ThePoolshark, and Alodia Gosiengfiao.

Facebook Places launched it as a tab on the Facebook Places app and a standalone app.

On February 18,2020, Ronda Rousey performed her first live stream on Facebook Places Gaming, announcing that she will stream once per week.

Facebook Places Podcast was unveiled in April and launched on June 22,2021.

In November 2015, Facebook Places made changes to their text-only status update on Timeline to allow for adjustable text sizes on mobile apps.

Facebook Places Credits are a virtual currency users can use to buy gifts, and virtual goods in many games and applications on the Facebook Places platform.

Facebook Places said it deployed dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 support on its routers, and that it made no changes to its hosts in order to support IPv6.

Facebook Places said that using LISP allowed them to deploy IPv6 services quickly with no extra cost.

However, Facebook Places was still not entirely convinced, using a "hybrid" solution of native computing code as a sort of "picture frame" for its mobile website.

In October 2011, Facebook Places updated its iOS app with support for iPad, adding larger photos and enabling more functionality, including the ability to post status updates and photos.

In December 2013, Facebook Places enabled a "Donate" button for charities and non-profit organizations to raise money.

In September 2011, Facebook Places launched a "Subscribe" button, allowing users to follow public updates from people without requiring a Facebook Places friendship connection.

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In September 2011, Facebook Places launched the "Ticker", a continually-updated feed on the right side of the screen showing friends' activities, including "likes", status updates, and comments.

TechCrunch reported in February 2012 that Facebook Places would introduce a "Verified Account" concept, denoting official pages for public figures.

In October 2015, Facebook Places introduced a "gray badge" verification system for local businesses with physical addresses, with the gray color intended to differentiate from its typical blue checkmarks assigned to celebrities, public figures, sports teams and media organizations.

In June 2013, Facebook Places introduced its support for clickable hashtags to help users search for topics being actively discussed on the social network.

In March 2014, some page administrators in Italy started being prompted to add an impressum to their Facebook Places page, described as "a legally mandated statement of the ownership and authorship of a document".

In October 2014, Facebook Places announced that users could connect to the website through a Tor hidden service using the privacy-protecting Tor browser and encrypted using SSL.

In November 2014, Facebook Places introduced "Say Thanks", an experience that lets user create personalized video greeting cards for friends on Facebook Places.

In December 2014, Facebook Places announced that Pages run by businesses can display a so-called "call-to-action button" next to the page's like button.

In September 2017, Facebook Places began testing a "Snooze" button, letting users temporarily unfollow friends for 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days.

In December 2017, Facebook Places announced "Sound Collection"; an archive of copyright- and payment-free soundtracks and audio effects its users can use in their videos.

On May 12,2011, Facebook Places announced that it is launching several new security features designed to protect users from malware and from getting their accounts hijacked.

Facebook Places offers two-factor authentication called "login approvals", which, if turned on, will require users to enter a code whenever they log into the site from a new or unrecognized device.

Facebook Places is partnering with the free Web of Trust safe surfing service to give Facebook Places users more information about the sites they are linking to from the social network.

In February 2010, TechCrunch reported that Facebook Places was working to rewrite its messaging service to turn it into a "fully featured webmail product", dubbed "Project Titan".

Facebook Places Lite offered fewer services, excluded most third-party applications and required less bandwidth.

Facebook Places announced a pilot program called Deals, which offered online coupons and discounts from local businesses, at an event at its Palo Alto office on 3 November 2010.

Facebook Places users were able to use Facebook Places Credits to purchase vouchers that could be redeemed for real goods and services.