Facebook is beginning to roll out a design update for its Notes feature, that will let users add a cover photo, captions, and improved formatting. The intention appears to be aimed at encouraging people to compose more notes within the social network and potentially further facilitate a blogging platform that’s akin to Medium — basically Facebook wants to further its goal of being a place to voice your opinion.
Beyond the inclusion of a cover photo, which offers a bit more personalization for notes, Facebook lets you also resize inserted photos and include a caption. Lastly, text can be formatted into headers, quotes, or bullet format. The whole point is to give notes some flair and help them stand out.
This updated version of notes is viewable across both mobile and web, although composing is only available on the desktop.
In August, Facebook did a major overhaul of Notes, which aimed to give users another space in which to compose long-form thoughts instead of just simply posting it as a lengthy status update. Some have said that with bigger real-estate, a proper byline, and even a timestamp, Facebook Notes now have “a sense of permanence and importance.”
Today’s updates is just another way to appeal to its 1.49 billion monthly active users to share their thoughts on the social network. There’s quite a bit of potential for the use of Notes, especially as the content people put in there could potentially be used for advertising purposes (a guess), but if it’s used by businesses, the idea of giving them not only a quick and easy online presence, monetization platform, and now a useful blogging service is significant.
Naturally a look at the refreshed Notes is an obvious challenge to Medium and Tumblr and it’s interesting to see whether it will attract major adoption since Facebook has major network effect versus the others.
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