[bigdubs]

So, this seems like a big deal, but really it just means when you go to tag a place in your post ... the place won't be there and you'll skip the location tag on your post.

If anything, it'll improve Facebook Places because people will enter more venues, as I'd imagine more people tag locations in instagram than use Facebook's social checkin feature.

[GFischer]

I'd like to see some data, but at least in my country Facebook has vastly more location data than Foursquare.

As many have said, Facebooks' data is not necessarily very good (especially lots of duplicates).

calinet6 said it best:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7743917

I do agree that this move will probably contribute better data to Facebook Places.