Save the Media

If your Facebook feed is like mine, it has been full of complaints recently over the latest Facebook changes. People don’t like the Twitteresque status-update feed down the right-hand side. They don’t think Facebook should decide what “stories” are likely to be popular. They don’t understand the new friend groups, unless they are also on Google Plus and love its “circles.” In general, it seems many people want to go back to the old way (which they hated when it first came out, too.)

Arguments against the changes range from concerns the alterations will help advertisers not users to opposition to Facebook trying to be in the “news business” at all. However, the point of this post is not to debate whether the Facebook changes are good or bad. The point is: There is much news organizations can learn from the Facebook changes.

Read the rest of this post at Harvard University’s Nieman Journalism Lab.

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