Facebook Notifications in Your Browser Tabs
Facebookers will have a new way to see if they have notifications and they will appear in browser tabs when the tab is open to the social networking site.
New notifications, friend requests and messages users have wil be indicated by a numeral that will appear between the word “Facebook” and the name of the specific page you’re viewing. Users can now tell if they have fresh Facebook activity, even if viewing another tab.
The only notifications you'll miss are event invitations, pokes, Page suggestions and others.
As most know, when you have notifications on the site and you click through them, the numeral indicator will go away. No matter how many alerts have accumulated, a user needs to remember that they have the notifications. Of course, this all means, theoretically, that one or many alerts stacked in the same channel frequently generate the same number of clicks: 1.
For Facebook to avoid the loss of click-thrus, the social networking wants users to get the notifications as they happen. The browser tab notifications help with this process and help draw attention to Facebook even amongst a slew of open tabs.
Despite this being a simple feature, it shows me that Facebook is similar to email when it comes to the user experience — it's always open because we're always checking our stream.
Do you keep Facebook open in your browser? Will the notifications help you?
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