"Notes" Update Shows Facebook's Continued Efforts To Increase Already Impressive User Engagement

As the number of social media platforms continues to grow, users' online activity is becoming increasingly divided, requiring social media companies to prove to potential advertisers that they not only have a lot of registered users, but that those users are engaged and spending a lot of time on their platforms.

Having accumulated nearly 230 billion minutes of user-time, Facebook is several lengths ahead of the competition in the user engagement race; its users have spent 18x more time on the platform than users of the next-biggest social network, Instagram (which, of course, is owned by Facebook). Despite its clear lead, Facebook seems to be keeping user engagement at the top of its priority list, introducing features that reduce its users' need to access resources outside the Facebook ecosystem.