Facebook Continues to Roll Out Hovercard Previews for News Feed Items

Facebook has slowly been rolling out “hovercards” to show previews of profiles, Pages, events and groups when their names are moused over on the news feed. This new design element, which has been spotted over the past few months, allows users to learn more about and interact with items in their feeds without opening a new tab or navigating away. The feature encourages a calm, single-window browsing experience versus a cluttered, fatigue-inducing array of active Facebook windows.



While the concepts of hovercards have been around for years, Facebook’s closest rival, Twitter, notably recently introduced

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