News You Can Poke

Your Humble Blogger is happy when the posts in his Facebook news feed are written in complete sentences. So he has reacted with some interest (and muffled glee) to news that Facebook will put New York Times, NBC News and other media news stories into the news feeds of users. NPR reports.

Questions...

•Is Facebook (and other social media sites) a replacement for traditional news media?

•What do you think of news stories popping up in your news feed? What control would you like to have?

•Do you see this as a good thing or a bad thing for the New York Times and NBC News?

•Will advertisers prefer this to ads on NBC news or the New York Times?