Facebook Places has launched and you’ve probably heard a lot about it at this point. What you may not have done is actually used the new location based service. Here’s a quick photo walkthrough of what you can expect.
This photo is what it looks like when you check in using Facebook Places on the iPhone.
This is how the check in will look on your profile and in the timeline on Facebook.
All location check ins will be lumped in on a community page, which is kind of a cool feature.
At the bottom of each community page there’s an option for business owners to claim their page. When that’s done the community pages change over to standard Facebook pages… which causes a bit of confusion.
If business X already has a page, but claims the community page, it becomes a typical Facebook page. Confused yet? Basically, it seems like theres going to be a way to link community pages to “official” pages so that businesses don’t end up having two pages. Sorry, I’m not sure there’s a very easy way to explain that.
At first glance it seems like Facebook Places is going to be pretty cool – especially when you get a mass number of people in one location.
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