Android/iOS: Today, Facebook announced that your mobile notifications will get a huge overhaul. In addition to a new look, Facebook is adding information like sports scores, reminders, and tons more.
The update looks like Facebook is trying to reframe your notifications tab as a home for all the information you might need right now. If you use Facebook regularly, you probably already get notifications about your events or birthdays. Facebook will make those cleaner, as well as adding info for things like local events, weather updates, movies, and nearby restaurants.
The video above shows Facebook’s notifications looking less like a notification list and more like, well, Google Now. There are your regular social network notifications, but there are also sections for information you might need. It’s unclear whether all of these new things will be treated like notifications that buzz your phone now (I think we can all agree we don’t need our phones to buzz in the middle of the night because the weather changed), but Facebook clearly wants to repurpose this tab to something more active.
A More Useful Notifications Tab on Mobile [Facebook]
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