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Dilemmas of a Facebook user relying on it for news
Facebook is deleting news from its app, and that’s confusing for users who depend on it to connect with friends and also to keep up with news in the world
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Users often do not distinguish between news about friends or news their friends share about the society they live in, says the writer.
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Like many Generation X netizens, I’m a regular user of Facebook, a social media app that allows us to stay connected with friends and friends of friends, gives us access to a range of community groups we’d otherwise not even know about, and helps us stay updated with events around the world when friends share information.
I also use Facebook to share my articles with my 3,000 over Facebook friends, most of whom I have never met personally. They are friends, or friends of friends, and readers of The Straits Times.
