Facebook rolls out 'Recommendations' in the UK: New feature will make it easier to get tips from your friends
- Feature has been in the US since October 2016 but has finally come to the UK
- Friends can comment on your status and their tips will appear on a map
- It makes finding things to do and places to see quicker and easier
Getting advice from your friends just got much easier for Facebook users in the UK.
A new feature called 'Recommendations' has been introduced, which allows you to collect recommendations from your nearest and dearest by posting a status on your wall.
Friends can comment with suggestions on your post and their advice will appear in a map.
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'Recommendations' allows you to tap into the mind of your friends for valuable tips on places to go and things to do
The feature has been available in the US since October 2016.
The advice given by friends will be mapped out and saved in one place.
For example if you upload a status saying 'Any recommendations for restaurants in High Street Kensington?', friends can simply comment below, and if the restaurant has a Facebook page it will automatically appear on a map.
'It's Friday night, you don't have plans, but you have a babysitter, and you're ready to go. But what do you do?' said Andrew 'Bos' Bosworth, Facebook's vice president of ads and business platform.
'It's an incredibly challenging process...We're worse off now than 10 years ago, when we started to talk about this', he said.
This makes it easier and faster to get advice on local places and services such as the best hair salon, or the perfect place to eat.
In order to get recommendations you need to switch on the feature for each post you write.
And if you're using Facebook from your desktop you can go to your Recommendations bookmark to ask a new question or help your friends.
Facebook has launched several other features to help users to easily find new things to do or places to see.
You can now order food from restaurants directly from their Facebook Page if they're signed up to Delivery.com or Slice.
And if you want to book an appointment, you can now do this directly via the business' Facebook page and they can get back to your request via Facebook Messenger.
Other businesses will also allow you to get an online quote via the 'Get Quote' button.
Facebook also works with Ticketmaster and Eventbrite so people can buy tickets to events directly from the event page
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