“We are testing an updated Notifications tab that adds additional, relevant content about everything that might be helpful to know on a particular day,” a Facebook spokesperson told\u00a0Mashable<\/em>.<\/p>\n The new Notifications tab will feature eight sections by default:<\/p>\n Users are currently able to personalize Notifications to show less or more of these sections, although it’s unclear whether this ability to customize will remain once Notifications rolls out worldwide.<\/p>\n Clicking on “See more…” 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 This latest rollout is the most ambitious Notifications update for mobile yet. Previously, Notifications was helpful with a more limited scope, alerting your when friends liked or commented on one of your posts, when friends had a birthday, or when someone accepted your friend request. It also showed event invitations and engagement around those events from people who RSVPed “yes.”<\/p>\n Facebook has tinkered with time-hopping features in the past, but Today in the Past takes a broader approach, including content that your friends posted which you engaged with.<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n But the new, improved Notifications tab will prove more useful for the average Facebook user, who already spends 21 minutes a day on the social network, thanks to the integration of more location-based features.<\/p>\n The News Shared Locally feature is a first for Facebook. Although the social network has long been a distribution platform for news (largely via News Feed), this is the first time it has heavily factored in location alongside popularity to increase relevancy for users.<\/p>\n And while Facebook has experimented with time-hopping features for years \u2014 most recently with the personal history feature On This Day \u2014 Today in the Past takes a broader approach. It’s not just resurfacing content you posted say, four years ago, it’s actually resurfacing friends’<\/em>posts, too. So, it might serve up a status update from your best friend, who watched a football game four years ago today because you commented or liked it and because it was a popular post overall.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: Mashable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Facebook wants notifications to become much more than a perfunctory list of recent behavior, events and invitations. Mashable 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. Facebook, which confirmed the development […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":93994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[18],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Notifications1\"](\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE1LzA0LzI0L2Q3L05vdGlmaWNhdGlvLmJlNTMwLnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4\/c580d769\/dd0\/Notifications1-313x640.png\" "\\"Notifications1\\"")
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