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All you need to know about Facebook Marketplace and the new customization added to it 


Facebook is one of the largest Social networking giant with billions of active users. Starting mainly as a social networking platform for connecting and interacting with new people throughout the world, it gradually expands itself to several other areas to provide its billions of users with amazing services and experiences. Thus apart from being the largest social platform for communicating and connecting with people, it also serves as a stable platform for advertisement, event promotion, pages, city guides, crisis response, recommendations, trending news, weather and lot more. Facebook is also ready to launch its new dating application to help users to find the love of their life and a long term relationship from among billions of users beyond their friendlist. Thus different types of services for fulfilling every needs of users, combined in a single platform has made Facebook one of the leading social giant all over the world. One such amazing service is the Facebook Marketplace.

Facebook Marketplace is an amazing service by the social giant providing an amazing common platform for buyers and sellers to meet and deal as per their requirements. The Marketplace consists of a 'Browse' menu where users can find different types of items displayed for sale based on their selected location and selected range surrounding the location. The 'Shop by Category' option enable users to search and buy products based on different categories like Home & Garden, Housing, Entertainment, Clothing & Accessories, Family, Electronics, Hobbies, Vehicles and Classifieds. These main categories are again divided into few sub-categories for ease of users to select product based on their requirement. The thumbnail pictures of the items are displayed with its name, the price and the location where it is available for sale. On clicking individual item another pop-up screen will appear where further details regarding the item and location of the seller is provided. There is also a "Ask for Details" button in the pop-up window and "Message Seller" button on the thumbnails so that buyer can directly request to seller for additional information and query regarding the product. 'Buying' and 'Selling' buttons keep track of the items and the chats with sellers and the messages from interested buyers respectively. You can also save an item in your 'Saved Items' list by bookmarking from the thumbnail images. The 'Sell Something' option enables sellers to add their own advertisement for any product in the Marketplace. Another new addition by Facebook to its Marketplace is the professional home services facility which will roll out very soon. There are many request for recommendations for in-home services mainly in the US which urged Facebook to launch this new service in its Marketplace. Now users will be able to hire a plumber, house cleaner, interior designer, contractor, electrician, home renovator and lot more for getting best in-home services from among the professionals in their surrounding area. Facebook is also collaborating with three companies namely Handy, Home Advisor and Porch for providing the best services to its users in this field.


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