Facebook testing topic-based news feeds
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Facebook is testing some changes to its news feed.
Rather than tweaking an algorithm, the site is looking into adding multiple, topic-based feeds for its mobile experience.
As early as March 2012, Facebook started to give desktop users the option to create interest lists. After choosing categories like recipes or style, the subjects would be accessible in the left-hand bookmarks bar under "Interests."
This new tweak mobile. The new feeds are likely familiar to users familiar with Facebook's Paper app or those who have used interest lists.
After setting which topics they care about, users will be able to swipe over to an entire news feed showing only a specific topic — exactly like users have being doing on Paper for some time now.
A spokesperson for Facebook explained to The Verge, "People have told us they'd like new options to see and have conversations about more stories on Facebook around specific topics."
There is no word on if or when this change will be pushed out to all mobile users. But if users want to experience what it might be like and have a device running iOS, they can download Paper.
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