Where did ask for recommendations go on Facebook?

Did you know Facebook allows you to ask your friends to recommend places to visit in specific cities (even your own)? For instance, if you’re planning a vacation, you may want to ask your friends for restaurant recommendations in the area. Or, you may be looking for a great mechanic in your own town. Whatever you’re looking for, our guide will show you how this feature works.

Note: These screenshots were captured in the Facebook application on iOS.

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Can one recommend your business or brand on Facebook when somebody asks where to eat or shop or party or something similar? If, yes then you need to enable Facebook Recommendations, which was earlier known as Facebook Reviews, on your page. Let’s learn how to enable Facebook Recommendations.

Why Facebook Recommendations?

By the time you must have noticed your friends or family members asking for a good Pizza Outlet, Restaurant, Dental Clinic, Photographer, Pre-School, Café, Jeweler, Bakery, Caterer, Event Manager, etc . OR Many of them when visit such places they check-in and they recommend the place. Right?

As per Facebook, today every third person on Facebook uses this platform to look for a recommendation or review about something or the other.

That’s a great opportunity for marketing and sales, as recommendations by a friend have more importance than the paid advertisement. To take an advantage of this, your Facebook Page must have enabled the Facebook Page Recommendations and Reviews.

How to Enable Facebook Recommendations?

Let’s take an example of a bakery, BonzerBites.

On the left side of your Facebook Page if Reviews tab is not appearing that means you have not enabled the same.

To turn on this feature, you need to go to settings and there click Templates and Tabs. Scroll down and click on the button Add a Tab.

Find Reviews and click on the Add Tab button.

Done you are good to go!

Now Reviews tab should be visible on the left side of the page. If there were any past reviews those should also be visible now in Recommendations and Reviews section.

Now your business is open for Facebook Recommendations and Reviews.

Remember You Cannot Delete Facebook Recommendations

While it’s good to receive recommendation and reviews, it has a flip side too.

You just cannot delete a Recommendation with a negative feedback. But, you can report it.

If you are sure that a particular Facebook Recommendations doesn’t follow Community Standards or don’t focus on the product or service offered by your business, you can report it to Facebook.

Reporting a recommendation is simple. Go to a particular Recommendation and click the exclamatory mark in the top right beside three dots.

That will open a POPUP with title What’s going on? You should see few tags such as Review not relevant, Unfair Review, Nudity, Violence, Harassment, Suicide, Spam, Drugs, Hate Speech, etc.

Select the appropriate tag and click send. Done.

Facebook will review your report and may remove Recommendations that don’t follow the standards.

For any reason till certain duration if you don’t want people to recommend your business, you can do it in few clicks.

Go to settings.  Click Templates and Tabs. Now locate Reviews and click settings. Just turn off the Show Reviews button. Now neither review will be visible nor will anybody be able to leave a new review.

Conclusion

If you have enabled Facebook Recommendations and Reviews, you stand a chance to gain new customers. If you have a great product or service which keeps your customers happy, they will certainly recommend your business in their community.

This Itechguide teaches you how to ask for recommendations on Facebook. The guide covers steps to ask for recommendations on Facebook from a PC and the App.

You can use the Ask for Recommendations feature to ask your Friends to recommend restaurants, places to visit or anything at all.

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• How to Ask for Recommendations on Facebook from a PC (Facebook.com)
• How to Ask for Recommendations on Facebook from the Facebook App

How to Ask for Recommendations on Facebook from a PC (Facebook.com)

• Open Facebook.com from your PC. Then, if you have not yet signed in, sign in with your Facebook account.
• On the top middle of your Facebook News Feed, click the 3 dots beneath What’s on your mind? box.

• Then, from the list of displayed options, click Ask for Recommendations.

• Once you click Ask for Recommendations, the question in the box above it will change from What’s on your mind? to What are you looking for? Facebook will also display Where are you looking for recommendations field with a list of locations listed beneath it.
• If the location you need recommendation is listed, click on it. Otherwise, type the city in the Where are you looking for recommendations field. Then, select the city from the displayed cities.

• In this example, I need a recommendation for Manchester, United Kingdom. I typed manches…then selected the first option.

• The location you selected will now be listed in your post. Enter the details of what you need in the What are you looking for? field.

• Finally, to ask for recommendations on Facebook, scroll down and click Post.

• Your post will be displayed as Looking for recommendations as shown below.

How to Ask for Recommendations on Facebook from the Facebook App

• Open the Facebook App on your phone. Then, login to the app with your Facebook account.

• On the top middle of the App, tap What’s on your mind?.

• Then, scroll down the list beneath the What’s on your mind? and tap Ask for Recommendations.

• Scroll down What are you looking for? and tap Add a Location.

• Then, on the Find location screen, start typing the city you need recommendation for. Based on your search, Facebook will display a list of locations. Tap the city you want.

• The selected location will become available in your post. Enter the details of what you need in the What are you looking for? field.

• Finally, to ask for recommendations on Facebook, on the top right of the new post, tap POST.

• The post will appear as shown in the image below…If you have friends that know the city, Facebook will offer you the option to ask them directly.

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