Facebook pushing enhanced notification tab to Android and iOS apps

The social media company sure hopes so.

If you’re a Facebook user, you’re definitely familiar with the Notifications tab in the company’s Android app. Although it has barely evolved from being a simple stream of your notifications since its introduction many years ago, Facebook has today come out to outline a few changes on the way to make it more useful and personalized.

Think of it as a supplement to your News Feed.

Assumably since most of us rarely use or view notifications that are more than a day old, Facebook has chose to use the space in the Notifications tab in other, more useful, ways.

Certain updates – like weather or local news – will rely on you giving Facebook access to your location data.

Although the news has prompted excitement on social media, many Facebookers are disappointed Zuckerberg has not made good on an apparent promise to introduce a “dislike” button.

Facebook now wants to tell you about new things it thinks you’ll be interested in, not necessarily things you already know about or have liked in the past.

You’ll also be able to see sports scores and TV reminders if you use Facebook to follow teams or programmes. The new notifications sound like they’re created to be individually molded by Facebook’s 1.31 billion mobile users. And let’s not forget the types of notices you can get if you have location sharing enabled and Facebook wants to pass along information about nearby businesses that may be interesting to you.

Or maybe you’ll just spend a lot of time obsessively scrolling through both.

But British Facebook users will have to wait a bit longer for the new features – the personalised notifications tab is only being rolled out in the United States for the time being.