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News + Social Media = Social News?
How do you find news on the web? Do you go straight to your favourite blogs and news sites or do you use an RSS reader? Or are both of these options too old hat?
This article posted last year on Read Write Web found that use of RSS feeds declined last year.
The answer to why this is is probably the same as the answer to probably 60% of questions asked over the last 6 months: Twitter.
A quick glance at my TweetDeck shows that a large proportion of my friends’ tweets are links to blogs or news stories that they find interesting. Now, most of these people I’ve chosen to follow because I find them interesting (some because they’re my boss), and as such, their selection of news and blog posts will probably interest me too. And it does; the system works, without Twitter, I never would have heard about this.

It’s all part of news becoming more social. We share the news stories we find interesting, and sometimes cut out the middleman and create the reports ourselves. So clearly, Social Media is changing the way we get news.
A Challenger Appears!
There’s been a recent post on Facebook’s blog suggesting that they too, want to enter the arena of social news. It’s here. What they suggest is using Facebook as a feed reader. This makes a lot of sense as a lot of news providers already have pages on Facebook, Facebook already has a feed structure that is inherent to the site and a pre-existing social aspect that RSS services such as Google Reader would have to build from scratch.
What Facebook is suggesting is using their ‘list’ feature to create yourself a little news feed. I made one and it looks like this:
