Facebook is launching a set of new ecommerce features that could turn it into your primary destination for everyday services, such as ordering food, buying movie and gig tickets, or planning a night out.
As part of the update, local business pages now include more direct interaction options. For example, restaurants in your vicinity that offer delivery via Delivery.com or Slice allow you to place orders right from their Facebook pages.
Facebook already allows users to purchase food from select merchants (including pizza delivery from Domino’s and Pizza Hut) using bots, but it clearly craves a bigger slice of the online food ordering industry — which was valued at $9 billion last year.
Facebook is also expanding its recently launched partnership with Fandango to allow you to buy tickets for a larger variety of movies from a film’s official page. The same goes for concert and event tickets, courtesy of Ticketmaster and Eventbrite. Additionally, Facebook is debuting a “get quote” button for local services and the option to request appointments. The latter has been available in emerging markets since August, and is catered toward salons, and spas.
Another new tool introduced on Wednesday is a “recommendations” feature that can be turned on within your Facebook posts. This fundamentally lets you ask for advice regarding local businesses from friends, whose subsequent suggestions will be mapped out and saved in one place for you to access. Facebook has also added a recommendations bookmark to the sidebar next to your News feed which, when clicked, opens a new section on the site where you can discuss all things local with your network.
That’s not where the platform’s obsession with social discovery ends. In the coming weeks, Facebook will be revamping its Events dashboard to serve you more local recommendations regarding what’s happening in your locality. These suggestions will be based on what’s popular among your friends, and in relation to pages you’ve liked — similar to the features available in its Events mobile app, launched earlier this month.
Facebook’s ecommerce and recommendations features are currently being rolled out to U.S. users.
Discord is trying to push more visibility on the internet for some of its biggest communities, and there's a good chance your messages could end up in a Google Search. The platform is preparing to make conversations from certain public servers searchable on the web, so there's a privacy setting you might want to check before the rollout begins.
According to Discord's official announcement, the changes will roll out in two stages. Starting November 16, qualifying servers will have public web pages featuring automated summaries of conversations. By mid-December, individual messages from eligible public channels could also appear word-for-word in Google and other search engines.
You just opened X and started typing your thoughts. Imagine the jump scare when a hand suddenly pops up on your screen, pointing at the promote button. It doesn’t say a word and simply points. For a growing number of X users, this isn’t a made-up scenario but something they have been seeing since yesterday, and very few of them are amused.
Most of us have learned to tune out the usual in-app upsells, whether it’s a glowing upgrade banner or a pop-up about a premium plan. A floating hand hovering over your draft is much harder to ignore, and that’s probably the whole point.
Scroll through any app for five minutes, and you’ll find someone maxxing something. Their skin, their sleep, their protein intake, even their Friday night on the couch. That little suffix has been everywhere this year, and now it has a trophy to show for it. In a recent announcement, Dictionary.com named maxxing its 2026 Word of the Year.
What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?