Designing Facebook Places — T Inc.: An update with location vs. a check-in This was a bit more difficult to resolve. Like I mentioned, many of our first iterations involved attaching your location to a status update. At first it seemed like the logical route. We didn’t need to create a different item in the Facebook ecosystem, and people could just quickly turn it on and all their status updates would be geocoded. But it feels like more work. Sure, it could just be turned on, and then always be on, but that conflicts with the always sharing argument. It can be argued that checking in is new and requires more work, but when you walk yourself through the process of a check-in versus a status update plus location it becomes a lot clearer. In a status update plus location world you start with a status update. You first have to come up with something to say. It’s a blank canvas. You write something and then think, “Oh, I should add some location data to it.” If, say, it was sticky once you... - × × ×