Two Years After Facebook Launches News Feed, Sociologists Describe "Ambient Awareness"
Today marks the two-year point since Facebook first introduced its “News Feed,” a new way of discovering information about your friends through an automatically “pushed” stream of updates about your friends’ activity on the site.
While hundreds of thousands of users initially protested the News Feed due to perceived privacy concerns, they have since voted with their feet and stayed glued: Facebook has grown from 15 million active users in September 2006 to over 100 million active users in September 2008.
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