Your Facebook home page is getting yet another update: In addition to every less-than-thrilling detail of your friends’ activities, the pretty much useless news ticker will now display advertisements—or, as Facebook calls them, “Sponsored Stories.”
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the changes to Mashable, explaining, “Sponsored Stories are an extension of News Feed, so we think it’s natural that they appear in ticker.”
Facebook isn’t by any means the first social networking site to include advertisements in its news feed.
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