Facebook Events now a standalone app

Every day, more than 100 million people use Facebook events to discover things they can do with their friends hence Facebook announced that Events from Facebook is a new app to cater for event seekers.

Events allows you to catch up on new events your friends are interested in, recently-announced events by the Pages you like, and updates from events you’re already connected to.

“If you’re looking for something to do this weekend or even right now, you can easily browse event recommendations based on time, location and your interests. Explore events happening where you are or in places you like to go using the interactive map. You can also search for events in any city if you’re planning ahead for a trip,” read a statement from Facebook.

Events also allows you to keep track of all of your upcoming events in the calendar, also you can add calendars from your phone, Google and Apple’s iCloud and view them alongside your Facebook events.

“The actions you take on events in the app will also be visible and available on Facebook. This way, your friends can see what you’re interested in and what events you’ve shared with them, even if they don’t have the app,” added the statement.

Though Events is only available for iOS with a promise of Android joining soon.