Facebook Gets Deeper into Real-Times News with “News” List Push
Facebook has just announced a new push to get people reading news on the site — a detailed blog post, including the suggestion that users create “News” lists on their homepages, showing the latest news items from the publication Pages that users are fans of.
This isn’t a new feature, just a good suggestion for how to use lists to track information you care about. From the post:
You can even create a “News” list to filter news-oriented Pages into one view on your News Feed. Simply add relevant Pages to the list, just as you would with a friends list. The next time you sign on to Facebook, you can click the “News” filter to see stories from all of the news outlets of which you’ve become a fan.
This is another way that Facebook is trying to make itself a more central part of people’s lives. The list is acting as a sort of aggregated social RSS feed reader, but it makes the process simpler for users who don’t understand RSS — just fan a page and check this list from time to time.
The move will probably get more publications updating their Pages, too, thereby making the service even more valuable to users.
January 29th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
I have been using Facebook as a news reader for a while and I have subscribed to almost 200 Pages. I follow many news publishers, bloggers, artists and movies and there’s plenty of value. Most notably from artists because I’m able to follow tours, ticket announcements and offers.
As Pages become more popular, I expect that we will see another Twitter feature introduced – Page Lists!! :P
January 29th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
I have been using Facebook as a news reader for a while and I have subscribed to almost 200 Pages. I follow many news publishers, bloggers, artists and movies and there’s plenty of value. Most notably from artists because I’m able to follow tours, ticket announcements and offers.
As Pages become more popular, I expect that we will see another Twitter feature introduced – Page Lists!!
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