{"id":63417,"date":"2014-03-26T19:42:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=63417"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:47:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:47:42","slug":"instagram-tests-facebook-places-check-in-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/instagram-tests-facebook-places-check-in-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram tests Facebook Places check-in feature to take on Foursquare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Facebook tag\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/facebook-tags\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> is looking to integrate its <strong>Places check-in feature<\/strong> into <a title=\"Instagram news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/instagram\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>. Currently, Instagram only supports checking in using <a title=\"Foursquare for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/foursquare.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foursquare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense that Facebook is testing Places integration in Instagram. Getting users to use Facebook&#8217;s own check-in system <strong>keeps them using Facebook products<\/strong>. Facebook could also advertise to users with suggested restaurants, bars,  and other locations.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unlikely that Facebook will remove Foursquare integration in favor of its own. Instagram currently supports sharing photos with third-party apps like <a title=\"Twitter news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/twitter\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, <a title=\"Flickr news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/flickr\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flickr<\/a>, and <a title=\"Tumblr news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/tumblr\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tumblr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Location data is also valuable for Facebook to analyze where its users are going and to <strong>anticipate their needs<\/strong>. With Instagram&#8217;s library of photos and check-in data, Facebook could make <strong>personalized suggestions<\/strong> based on where your Instagram friends have been.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"Fast Company\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3028166\/instagram-testing-facebook-places-integration-to-replace-foursquare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fast Company<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/minecraft-for-oculus-rift-canceled\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minecraft for Oculus Rift canceled because Facebook is creepy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-to-buy-oculus-vr-for-2-billion\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virtual reality Facebook now closer with Oculus VR purchase<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/ello-a-social-network-that-wants-to-be-the-anti-facebook\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ello: a Social Network that wants to be the anti-Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is looking to integrate its Places check-in feature into Instagram. Currently, Instagram only supports checking in using Foursquare. It makes sense that Facebook is testing Places integration in Instagram. Getting users to use Facebook&#8217;s own check-in system keeps them using Facebook products. Facebook could also advertise to users with suggested restaurants, bars, and other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/instagram-tests-facebook-places-check-in-feature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Instagram tests Facebook Places check-in feature to take on Foursquare&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":63420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2354],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-63417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectioninstagram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331058,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63417\/revisions\/331058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63417"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=63417"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=63417"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=63417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}