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 The WARC files associated with this crawl are not currently available to the general public. ||||| It was almost exactly one year ago that Facebook launched Places, their location-based offering. Reading the press at the time, you would have thought it was going to be the Foursquare-killer, the Gowalla-strangler, the Loopt-beheader, etc. Nevermind that Facebook partnered with all of them for the launch — those guys were done. 
  
 Fast forward to today: Foursquare recently raised a large round of funding valuing them at $600 million. And Facebook is killing off Places. 
  
 To be clear, Facebook is not ducking out of the location game itself. In fact, you could say that they’re doubling-down on it. But they are moving away from the game that the “check-in” services have been playing. And a result of that is Places being killed off and being replaced by new “Nearby” area, as Jason outlined along with the bigger privacy changes today. 
  
 Reading over Facebook’s own post on the location changes, it wasn’t entirely clear what these changes meant for the concept of the check-in itself. But this page appears to make it a little more clear. As I read it, check-ins will remain as a part of the product, but they’ll no longer be emphasized. It seems that the hope is that people will move away from thinking of location in terms of “checking in” and instead think about it in terms of tagging your location to what ever it is you’re doing — sharing a thought, posting a picture, etc. 
  
 As the new location page makes clear, Facebook now views location usage in three main ways: 
  
 Share where you’ve been 
  
 Share where you are now 
  
 Share where you’re going 
  
 Past. Present. Future. 
  
 This is smart, as it’s something none of the other location services have really nailed yet. And now that location is being emphasized on every Facebook action (though it can easily be turned off) — and not just on mobile — a lot of people are going to use it. Location as a layer of context is about to get a big upgrade. 
  
 All of this is also smart from a location-based advertising strategy. It’s more data and more strong signals. What I’m not yet clear on is what this means for Facebook’s location-based deals service. Launched alongside Places last year, it would seem that this never really took off. And Facebook doesn’t mention it today. I’ve reached out to them to clarify. 
  
 The video on the location info page details how location tagging will work. The default on facebook.com appears to be city-level, and there’s a secondary location button to add an actual venue (which is then inserted into your status message). You can also add location to photos you’ve already posted. 
  
 The video also points out that on mobile devices there will still be a check-in button, but the functionality will be different. It apparently will only exist as a part of a status update and there will be no more big blue “Check In” button that inserts your check-in into a stream of other check-ins (and again, no more Places area itself). Instead, once you select a place, it will simply be tacked on to the end of your status message. 
  
 Location sharing will also be tied to the more direct and simplified privacy changes Facebook outlined today. 
  
 Update: Here’s what Facebook has to say on the check-in deals: 
  
 Once someone tags where they are on Facebook, they will be directed to the News Feed. If the Place is offering a Check-in Deal, the title of the deal will appear below the News Feed story. You’ll then be able to click on the deal title and will then be taken to the claim flow. 
  
 Below, find the flow diagram of how it will now work. ||||| Business Insider Illustration Facebook just announced plans to abandon the "Places" feature inside its mobile application. 
  
 Instead, location information will just become a standard part of mobile status updates. 
  
 This looks like a tacit admission that Foursquare is winning the check-in battle, after Facebook failed to crush the upstart despite an incredibly large mobile userbase. 
  
 What worked for Foursquare didn't work for Facebook. Now Facebook will have to figure out its own way to get users sharing location data instead of copying Foursquare. 
  
 Meanwhile, Foursquare which is chugging along, rapidly rolling out new features like event checkins and lists, making the service more and more useful than just checking and telling your friends where you are. 
  
 So, round 1 to Foursquare. We'll see what happens in round 2 as Facebook tries another tactic. ||||| UPDATE on December 12, 2012: We've updated our controls for managing your content. Learn more here. 
  
 Today we're announcing a bunch of improvements that make it easier to share posts, photos, tags and other content with exactly the people you want. You have told us that "who can see this?" could be clearer across Facebook, so we have made changes to make this more visual and straightforward. The main change is moving most of your controls from a settings page to being inline, right next to the posts, photos and tags they affect. Plus there are several other updates here that will make it easier to understand who can see your stuff (or your friends') in any context. Here's what's coming up, organized around two areas: what shows up on your profile, and what happens when you share something new. 
  
 On Your Profile 
  
 Your profile should feel like your home on the web - you should never feel like stuff appears there that you don't want, and you should never wonder who sees what's there. The profile is getting some new tools that give you clearer, more consistent controls over how photos and posts get added to it, and who can see everything that lives there. 
  
 Inline Profile Controls 
  
 Before: Most of the settings for stuff on your profile were a few clicks away on a series of settings pages. 
  
 Going Forward: Content on your profile, from your hometown to your latest photo album, will appear next to an icon and a drop-down menu. This inline menu lets you know who can see this part of your profile, and you can change it with one click. 
  
 A side benefit of moving most settings to inline controls is a much shorter and simpler Settings page. A bunch of settings that were there previously have been moved directly inline, and a handful have been replaced or removed. (You can find more detail on the profile settings here: http://www.facebook.com/about/control) 
  
 Profile Tag Review 
  
 Before: Photos you were tagged in would show up on your profile as soon as you were tagged. One of the top requests we've heard is for the ability to approve these tags before they show up on your profile. 
  
 Going Forward: You can choose to use the new tool to approve or reject any photo or post you are tagged in before it's visible to anyone else on your profile. 
  
 Content Tag Review 
  
 Before: Anyone who could see your photos or posts could add tags to them. 
  
 Going Forward: You have the option to review and approve or reject any tag someone tries to add to your photos and posts. 
  
 View Profile As… 
  
 Before: We heard you wanted to know what your profile looked like to others, but the tool for doing this was behind the scenes. 
  
 Going Forward: This tool is now on the top of your profile where it's easier to access. 
  
 When You Share 
  
 In addition to the profile changes, it will now be more visually straightforward to understand and control who can see your posts at the time you share them. We're also broadening the functionality of the sharing tool: now if you want to make your posts more expressive, we've made it simple to add location and tag the people you're with. 
  
 Inline controls 
  
 Before: Controls for who could see your stuff on Facebook lived on a settings page a few clicks away. 
  
 Going Forward: The control for who can see each post will be right inline. For each audience, there is now an icon and label to help make it easier to understand and decide who you're sharing with. Also, when you tag someone, the audience label will automatically update to show that the person tagged and their friends can see the post. 
  
 This dropdown menu will be expanding over time to include smaller groups of people you may want to share with, like co-workers, Friend Lists you've created, and Groups you're a member of. These will make it easy to quickly select exactly the audience you want for any post. 
  
 If you're posting to Facebook from a phone or app that does not yet support inline controls, your setting will be the same as it is today. You can change this with a new setting available on your privacy settings page. (For a guided tour of these new controls, go here: http://www.facebook.com/about/sharing) 
  
 Word Change: "Everyone" to "Public" 
  
 Before: You had the option to share a post with Everyone, which meant that anyone on the internet might be able to see it. 
  
 Going Forward: We are changing the name of this label from Everyone to Public so that the control is more descriptive of the behavior: anyone may see it, but not everyone will see it. This is just to make the setting more clear, and it's just a language change. 
  
 Change Your Mind After You Post? 
  
 Before: Once you posted a status update, you couldn't change who could see it. 
  
 Going Forward: Now you'll be able to change who can see any post after the fact. If you accidentally posted something to the wrong group, or changed your mind, you can adjust it with the inline control at any time. 
  
 Tag Who You're With, or What You Want to Talk About 
  
 Before: You could only tag someone if you were friends with them, and you could only tag a Page if you had liked it. This felt broken or awkward if you had a photo album of co-workers and had to become Facebook friends to tag them in the photos. 
  
 Going Forward: You can add tags of your friends or anyone else on Facebook. If you are ever tagged by a non-friend, it won't appear on your profile unless you review and approve the post. 
  
 Tag Locations in Posts 
  
 Before: You could only "check in" to locations using the Places feature on a smart phone. 
  
 Going Forward: Now you can add location to anything. Lots of people use Facebook to talk about where they are, have been or want to go. Now you can add location from anywhere, regardless of what device you are using, or whether it is a status update, photo or Wall post. Of course, you can always choose not to add location at all. 
  
 As a part of this, we are phasing out the mobile-only Places feature. Settings associated with it are also being phased out or removed. (You can read more about how location works and settings affected here: http://www.facebook.com/about/location) 
  
 Remove Tags or Content from Facebook 
  
 Before: When we asked, people had different ideas of what removing a tag actually did, and different motivations for wanting to remove them. 
  
 Going Forward: Your options for removing tags or content on Facebook are presented more clearly. Your options are: removing from your profile, removing the tag itself, messaging the photo owner or tagger, and requesting the content get taken down. (More details on tagging can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/about/tagging) 
  
 These changes will start to roll out in the coming days. When they reach you, you'll see a prompt for a tour that walks you through these new features from your homepage. In the meantime, you can read more about the upcoming changes from the links throughout this post. We'll look forward to your feedback on all of this. 
  
 Taken together, we hope these new tools make it easier to share with exactly who you want, and that the resulting experience is a lot clearer and a lot more fun. |||||

Facebook published a 1,200-word blog post yesterday detailing its latest privacy changes, but one little tidbit is just getting attention today: Toward the end of the post, the social networking site announced it will be “phasing out” Facebook Places, its Foursquare-like check-in service that debuted to much hype last year. But Facebook isn’t giving up on location-based services entirely; rather, it will now allow users to add locations to their posts via tagging. Places never really hit its stride, the Huffington Post notes: By the time it had been out two months, just 6% of all Facebook users had tried it. But all those social Starbucks drinkers will likely be disappointed: Mashable reports that Starbucks is the eatery users check in at most often, followed, inexplicably, by Buffalo Wild Wings. Business Insider muses that this development appears to show that “Foursquare is winning the check-in battle.” But on TechCrunch, MG Siegler notes that Facebook is actually “doubling-down” on location now that it will be available in every post.