Facebook launches Facebook local stand alone app for events

Never miss an event around you, with facebook local you will be up to date all the time 

Facebook local: Facebook on Friday relaunched its Events standalone app, calling it local. on the market for Android and iOS users within the US, the Facebook local app options data regarding local businesses and reviews from Facebook users to assist compile businesses, restaurants, bars, and a lot of with events.

"Launching in the US on iOS and Android, Facebook Local combines events and permanent places to a single search engine powered by Facebook's 70 million business pages plus reviews and friends' check-ins,"  A report by TechCrunch on Friday.

"The new app, helps you easily find what to do, where to go, where to eat, or what you need - all recommended by the people you know and trust," Said Aditya Koolwal, Local Product Manager.

Facebook local events

The local app can mix calendar and event listings and this side may flip the social media platform nearer to apps like Foursquare and Yelp that search-and-discover and supply those results for its users regionally.

On the Google Play app listing, the Facebook local app is delineated  to let users "keep up with what is happening locally-wherever you are-whether you are looking for one thing to try and do with friends this weekend or need to explore a brand new neighborhood."

Facebook local search

Users are going to be ready to see the foremost recent activity, events, and places your friends are interacting with and updates from event hosts and Pages you follow. there is additionally an interactive map and filter by time, category, location and a lot of.

Recommendations are based on what is popular with the user's friends, wherever the user has been to within the past, the Pages the user likes, and Facebook's curated Guides. Calendars are foreign, in order that all plans are often seen in one place. Users also will be ready to opt-in to induce notifications regarding approaching events, just in case things modification.

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