Facebook last week began rolling out a revamped Notes feature reminiscent of blogging platform Medium.
The wider display, bigger cover art, and cleaner text promise "an even better way to write a longer post and share with anyone."
Recapping your summer vacation, or sharing recipes you learned at cooking school? Add a profile-like cover photo to represent your note, caption and resize photos, and format text into headers, quotes, or bullets. Folks familiar with the Medium or WordPress blogging services will feel right at home.
"Facebook has always been a place to share your thoughts with friends, and notes are a meaningful way for people to do that," User Interface Engineer Isaac Salier-Hellendag wrote in a blog post. Jeff Nunokawa, for example, has written a note every day since 2007, each inspired by a different quote (pictured).
Notes created on the Web are also fully viewable on mobile and vice versa.
The upgrade was first spotted in August by a developer who stumbled upon the social network's beta test.
Few people use Notes anymore after Facebook increased the character limit for status updates. Nonetheless, Facebook is hoping this change will inspire more long-form musings; the update should reach all users soon.
Medium, meanwhile, has become the go-to platform for people to post engaging content, from a YouTube star's Google takedown to a grad student highlighting a Facebook privacy flaw. It arrived in August 2012 with former Twitter CEO Evan Williams at the helm.
Facebook has been expanding its own publishing reach with things like Instant Articles. Initially supported by The New York Times, BuzzFeed, National Geographic, NBC, and The Atlantic, the program loads articles on Facebook's iOS app much faster than links to outside websites.
Source: pcmag.com
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