Facebook boosts personalised notifications for mobile users
  • 9 years ago
Facebook is rolling out a new take on the notifications tab in its app to deliver more of a Google Now-like experience.
Instead of only presenting a list of friend's birthdays and events, the new notifications tab in Facebook's app will attempt to surface more contextually relevant information in a fashion that blends the Facebook News Feed and Google Now.
The new notifications introduce "cards" to present information about things such as TV shows and sport scores, which are based on Pages users have previously Liked, as well as tune preferences for different content.
The feature will help surface local events, news that is popular in the city a user resides in, weather updates and severe weather warnings, movies playing in nearby cinemas, and lists of nearby places to eat, which include links to the an eatery's Facebook Page and reviews.