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Facebook announced an expanded Notification tab Monday, featuring local and global updates as well as relevant information about your favorite sports teams and TV shows.聽

鈥淓very day, people use their notifications to keep up-to-date with their friends and family,鈥� product manager wrote in a Facebook press release. 鈥淲e鈥檝e heard feedback that people wanted to add important information that they can easily see, all in one place.鈥�

Instead of chronological updates on friends鈥� posts and interactions, Facebook showed a in a promotional video that categorized updates into different categories such as 鈥淣ew movies this week,鈥� 鈥淵our events today,鈥� 鈥淭V shows on today,鈥� and 鈥淭rending.鈥�

By enabling Location History in the Facebook app, users can also receive notifications on local events and news, weather updates, and nearby places to eat.

This development could be a product of Facebook鈥檚 shrinking "coolness鈥�" factor. According to a May 2015 report by (GWI), only 14 percent of teens vote Facebook as the "coolest" social network. Although Facebook still has the most members of any social site, it was the only major network to witness a usage drop in 2014, with a 9% decline. Facebook鈥檚 competitors Pintrest and Tumblr witnessed huge growth, at 97 and 95 percent respectively.聽

Facebook鈥檚 new notification features may also be a response to the recent trends of passivity among users. Namely, users are spending more time on the mobile internet and choosing to surf rather than post.

鈥淚t鈥檚 not that Facebook is being abandoned,鈥� GWI鈥檚 head of trends explained in the study. 鈥淩ather, it鈥檚 that people are using Facebook less intensively or actively than before.鈥�

And Mr. Mander suggests the increases in mobile internet and passive usage are correlated. When users browse social media on their phones, they typically are short on time and viewing smaller smartphone screens. 鈥淭his encourages much more where people are more likely to simply look at things rather than interact with them,鈥� explains Mander. Out of the 1.32 billion users , 30 percent of the users reported using the social networking site exclusively on their phone. 聽

Data from supports the passive user theory, saying users get far more than they give. According to the data, 12 percent of Facebook users tagged a friend in a photo, but 35 percent were themselves tagged and 40 percent of users in Pew鈥檚 study made a friend request, compared to 63 percent that reported receiving at least one request.聽

So where is all the activity coming from?聽

Pew suggests that 鈥減ower users鈥� skew the demographics, causing observers to underestimate the number of passive users. The average Facebook user gets more likes, friend requests, and messages than they give to others because of a segment of 鈥減ower users鈥� on the site 鈥渨ho specialize in different Facebook activities and contribute much more than the typical user does.鈥�