Skip to main content

Facebook’s Medium-style Notes upgrade is now rolling out

facebook rolls out its notes upgrade to encourage more blogging before and after
Facebook
It’s a busy weekend for upgrades to your favorite social media services: Twitter is testing a new polling feature and Facebook is rolling out its upgraded Notes tool, a change the platform previewed last month. If you think the new Notes looks a lot like Medium, you’re absolutely right — the designers responsible for the lightweight blogging service were hired by Facebook at the start of the year.

“We’re rolling out an update to make notes on Facebook more beautiful and customizable,” explains Facebook’s Isaac Salier-Hellendag. “Notes are now an even better way to write a longer post and share with anyone — whether it’s a small group of friends or everyone on Facebook.” If you’re stuck for inspiration, Facebook suggests writing a recipe or a recap of your summer vacation for your friends to read.

As you can see from the before and after shot above, Notes now has a better variety of text formatting options, and users get the option to add a larger cover photo at the top of the post. Photos inside the text can be captioned and resized, and headers, block quotes, and bulleted lists are all supported. Notes can be created on the desktop site but only viewed on mobile, at least for the time being.

Head to facebook.com/notes to see if you’ve been upgraded to the new format (and to see notes left by your friends) — if you don’t see the upgrade in your account already, it should be along soon. With some 1.49 billion people using Facebook every month it’s already doing rather well in the social media stakes, but that doesn’t mean Mark Zuckerberg and his team are going to stop adding new features, whether that’s a prettier blogging tool or 360-degree video support.

Editors' Recommendations

David Nield
Dave is a freelance journalist from Manchester in the north-west of England. He's been writing about technology since the…
Samsung Galaxy Note 20 vs. Galaxy Note 10: A noteworthy upgrade?
Galaxy Note 20 Back

It's Unpacked season, which means Samsung will introduce its latest smartphones, smartwatches, and other tech for you to drool over. Today, the company unveiled its newest flagship, the Samsung Galaxy Note 20. The phone is a follow-up to last year's Galaxy Note 10, which introduced a smaller design to the Note family.

So how much of a difference does a year make in terms of hardware, performance, camera, and battery? We break down the two phones to help you make the right choice for your next Note upgrade.
Specs

Read more
And the brands played on: How the Facebook ad boycott fizzled out
facebook hacked

The ad boycott against Facebook was supposed to be a drumbeat signaling change; a steady, crescendoing chorus of dissenters whose buying power was so strong that their absence would be noted and would bring true change to Facebook.

Starting in June with the announcement of the #StopHateForProfit campaign, advertisers hopped on board to be -- as the initial press release stated -- a response to “Facebook’s long history of allowing racist, violent, and verifiably false content to run rampant on its platform.”

Read more
Facebook starts rolling out Dark Mode feature to iOS devices
Facebook Russia

Facebook's Dark Mode has started rolling out to iOS devices, more than a month after the feature went live for the social network's desktop version.

Facebook confirmed with SocialMediaToday that Dark Mode is now available for the social network's iOS app, but currently only for "a small percentage of users globally."

Read more