Just like Foursquare and Yelp, Facebook has also realized the potential of the system for check-in, despite Places has not been very successful. Perhaps because of this lack of sucess, social par excellence has opted for a facelift that involves both the layout and the features. Thus was born Place Tips: a function that can inform us about places to visit and “things to do”, based on geolocation. Mike LeBeau, product manager at Facebook, made the announcement of the re-birth of Places on January 29.

Place Tips is a feature that will report, once activated localization on our device, the points of interest in the exact place where we are. The tip is automatically generated based on the personal information with which we have filled out the profile and friends with whom we interact. Place Tips appears on the wall of Facebook and for now is only available for iPhone. All this is based on the concept that the trust we place in our friends, often, is blind: Looking for a restaurant? First make sure that your friends will have already eaten. Tips Place, in fact, shows photos, comments, and anything else fanpage is inherent to the place we are going to visit.

But the real question is: do you trust the tastes of your friends?