Facebook updates a long-ignored feature

Facebook's experimental makeover of Notes, the features that lets you write nicely-formatted long posts, was apparently a success

Now the social network is making its redesign official, Facebook revealed Friday. The refreshed version of Notes is available to everyone.

The company has largely ignored Notes for years; the last major update was in 2010 — but as Facebook increasingly builds out its publishing features for media outlets, it makes sense to encourage its 1.25 billion users to think of the social network as a place for their own blog posts as well.