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New Facebook Notifications Alert Users When They Not Currently Looking At Facebook

In an effort to ensure constant engagement with the social media site, Facebook announced Monday that users would now receive notifications anytime they are not currently looking at Facebook. “We hope these helpful new alerts will improve our users’ experience by prompting them to revisit the site in the event they momentarily turn their focus elsewhere,” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, adding that the site’s new technology is able to track where users’ attention is directed and remind them with steady beeping sounds that they are not currently interacting with Facebook. —The Onion

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    • ROFLMAO, this sounds so like something facebook would do I didn't even think of it being an Onion article until I read the source at the end.

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