Your personalized newspaper on facebook

A new feature of facebook allows users to subscribe to 'interests', as well as people's updates, making their news feeds more like 'personalised newspapers'.Which means users can start creating and subscribing to these interest lists – such as recipes or sports teams.

The "interest list" will roll out to Facebook’s entire 850 million userbase over the next few weeks.This will create popular topics in real-time, which people can then ‘follow’, in a similar fashion to the microblogging site.

Facebook members will find the ‘interest list’ tab through the home page’s left hand sidebar – and if clicked upon, will reveal a new view entirely comprised of stories from a list's members.Only a creator of a list can edit it and choose the privacy settings. Users can recommend lists to each other too.


General lists already live include the 2012 Presidential Candidates and several business, style and sports lists – published by Facebook.

Facebook describes the feature as “a new way to keep up with the stuff you care about and tidy up your experience…Interest Lists can help you turn Facebook into your own personalized newspaper”.

This description has led several technology pundits to say the site is also going after personalised social news feed services, such as Flipboard.