Facebook Upgrades Facebook Notes, More Like a Blog

Seems Facebook is not stopping in being the number 1 destination of all things social. As blogs are considered part of the social media universe, looks like Facebook wants to have a strong stand in that arena too. leveraging the social graph it has.

After launching facebook Live, today Facebook just announced upgrading Facebook notes with the following features:

• Text editor:  for formatting notes no need for HTML tags.
• Tags: “tags of Pages will appear in a box on the note’s page. When viewing Notes from a Facebook Page, you can browse notes in which that Page has been tagged by one of your friends or by people who shared their note with “everyone.”
• cleaner layout: now notes takes a bigger screen size, left-hand menu includes links to your note, notes about yourself.

Update: the editor does not provide WYSIWYG option to create a text link, not really a full blogging experience.

more info on Facebook blog post.

Will facebook notes become a threat to blogging platforms such as wordpress, blogger and tumbler?