An Ode to the Facebook Newsfeed
We seem to have a love hate relationship with Facebook and the newsfeed but it's influence in the world and on the Internet is undeniable.
In the early days of social media, we interacted with ourselves on our own pages. If we wanted to check on someone else, we’d have to navigate to their page. It really wasn’t an effective way to keep track of your contacts.
According to a recent Slate feature, the Facebook newsfeed changed everything, right down to how we view privacy, communicate with family and friends, and paved the way for the feed format that has become the social media standard.
Wrote author Farhad Manjoo: “Looking back, it’s clear that news feed is one of the most important, influential innovations in the recent history of the Web.
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