{"id":111059,"date":"2015-04-24T08:28:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T08:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=111059"},"modified":"2015-04-24T08:28:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T08:28:41","slug":"facebooks-new-notifications-tab-is-a-robust-mini-news-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=111059","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s new notifications tab is a robust mini-news hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook wants notifications to become much more than a perfunctory list of recent behavior, events and invitations.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mashable<\/em> has learned the social network is quietly testing and rolling out a robust new notifications tab that pulls content from across the entire site and serves it up in one central place.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, which confirmed the development to <em>Mashable<\/em>, plans to introduce the new tab to mobile users across the U.S. first, then worldwide, although it has yet to pin down exact timing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are testing an updated Notifications tab that adds additional, relevant content about everything that might be helpful to know on a particular day,&#8221; a Facebook spokesperson told\u00a0<em>Mashable<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And <em>then<\/em> some.<\/p>\n<p>The new Notifications tab will feature eight sections by default:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Birthdays<\/li>\n<li>Life Events \u2014 a list of events from your friends that were published today, happened today or happened recently.<\/li>\n<li>Events \u2014 shows events you\u2019ve joined<\/li>\n<li>Nearby Places \u2014 shows three nearby places to eat at. Interestingly enough, Nearby Places is time-sensitive and will recommend different venues based on time of day, like a breakfast spot in the morning. It will only show up if the user has Location Services turned on.<\/li>\n<li>Trending Topics \u2014 a list of three topics from the existing Trending Topics area adjacent to your News Feed.<\/li>\n<li>News Shared Locally \u2014 a crop of publicly-shared news that&#8217;s popular (read: viral) in your city.<\/li>\n<li>Today in the Past \u2014 displays several posts and photos from some time ago based on whether you liked or commented on them and how popular they were with friends.<\/li>\n<li>Nearby Friends \u2014 shows friends who are well, <em>nearby<\/em>, but only if the user has opted in to the existing feature on mobile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Users are currently able to personalize Notifications to show less or more of these sections, although it&#8217;s unclear whether this ability to customize will remain once Notifications rolls out worldwide.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\">\n<div class=\"microcontent-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"microcontent-shares\" data-description=\"\" data-fragment=\"m!a5d0\" data-image=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzA0LzI0L2Q3L05vdGlmaWNhdGlvLjg0N2JjLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4\/706ddf31\/e44\/Notifications-tab-640x360.jpg\" data-url=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Notifications-tab\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzA0LzI0L2Q3L05vdGlmaWNhdGlvLjg0N2JjLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4\/706ddf31\/e44\/Notifications-tab-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Notifications-tab\" data-credit-link=\"\" data-credit-name=\"Facebook\" data-credit-label=\"\" data-credit-provider=\"Custom type\" data-caption=\"Pictured in the new Notifications tab: Birthdays, Trending Topics, News Shared Locally and On This Day in the Past. \" data-width=\"640\" data-fragment=\"m!a5d0\" data-image=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzA0LzI0L2Q3L05vdGlmaWNhdGlvLjg0N2JjLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4\/706ddf31\/e44\/Notifications-tab-640x360.jpg\" data-micro=\"1\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Pictured in the new Notifications tab: Birthdays, Trending Topics, News Shared Locally and On This Day in the Past.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how News Shared Locally and Today in the Past currently appears to some users:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"FB-notifications-tab-test\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzA0LzI0L2FiL3VubmFtZWQ0MzcxLmI1NGE2LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4\/ddb4246c\/480\/unnamed4-371x640.jpg\" alt=\"FB-notifications-tab-test\" data-credit-link=\"\" data-credit-name=\"Mashable\/JP Mangalindan\" data-credit-label=\"\" data-credit-provider=\"Custom type\" data-caption=\"Facebook's experimental Notifications tab includes locally-shared news stories and a section called &quot;Today in the Past,&quot; which surfaces content you engaged with a long time ago.  \" data-width=\"371\" \/><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Facebook&#8217;s experimental Notifications tab includes locally-shared news stories and a section called &#8220;Today in the Past,&#8221; which surfaces content you engaged with a long time ago.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Clicking on &#8220;See more&#8230;&#8221; does just what you would expect: It expands to display several more relevant items, including local news stories in News Shared Locally, for example, or more posts you engaged with a while ago.<\/p>\n<p>This latest rollout is the most ambitious Notifications update for mobile yet, integrating a slew of the social network&#8217;s location-based features and giving even news curation a geographic element, in an attempt to make Notifications more useful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0mashable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook wants notifications to become much more than a perfunctory list of recent behavior, events and invitations. 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