Critical UI and UX Failures in Facebook Events

Recently I tried to search for an in-person event in my city using Facebook Events, and quickly realized that there was no way to actually achieve that.

I further discovered Facebook Events UI and UX don't give Users the options to perform a wide variety of searches that would be considered simple / standard in any other events-based application.

For example:

* Online Events: FB Events does not let you filter out Online Events, so your search results will be polluted with unwanted results if you're seeking an in-person event, making the results essentially meaningless and unusable.

* Browse Events: There is no way to browse upcoming events in your geographical area. Instead, you must specify a search term and run the search. i.e. There is no way to simply see what's going on in town and randomly pick a local event to go to.

* Time-Based Search Criteria: Users are unable to for an event that occurs at a specific time. E.g. "Show me events that start at 6pm and end by 10pm."

* Nearby Cities: Results will often display events in nearby cities, despite the User specifying that they only want to see "nearby events". This makes the search results essentially unusable, since much of what is displayed is not appropriate to you.

...and yet, FB events are often the only game in town.

Honestly, I am quite suspicious of Facebook's reasons for making these UI and UX decisions, since no self-respecting UI/UX designer would come up with this interface or this experience. Maybe Facebook believes that if you're attending in-person events, then you aren't using Facebook?

I would truly love to see FB improve the UI and UX of the Events API so that Users could find more appropriate results for their searches.