Facebook Testing Upcoming Events In News Feed?

Facebook is continuing to test additional modules for its news feed, adding to its upcoming concerts trial, discovered last month, with an upcoming events module.

Facebook is continuing to test additional modules for its news feed, adding to its upcoming concerts trial, discovered last month, with an upcoming events module.

The upcoming events module appears to list nearby events that the user was not necessarily invited to, and hovering over the question mark in the top-right-hand corner of the module results in the display of the following text:

Suggestions based on what’s happening nearby.

Readers: Have you seen upcoming concerts or upcoming events in your news feeds?

Thank you to reader Jack Tang for the tip and the screen grab.

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