Facebook Groups News Feed Stories By Keywords

Facebook yesterday officially announced that it is grouping similar news feed stories based on keywords, and as usual, not everyone likes the change.

Facebook yesterday officially announced that it is grouping similar news feed stories based on keywords.

Readers have been telling us about this capability for some time now, but now this feature appears across the site.

Yet like what happens in response to other upgrades on the site, many Facebook users are complaining that the topical groupings leave much to be desired.

In the comments beneath the site’s official announcement of the capability, numerous posters asked Facebook to get rid of keyword groupings altogether; such posts appear to outnumber the ones suggesting that the topic clusters would work with additional modifications added.

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