Redesigned Facebook aims to become ‘your own personal newspaper’

Facebook is always inventing or copying features to attract humans. Thomas has a facebook account, maybe even three? Trouble remembering passwords, yeah, yeah, write your passwords down; the passwords get lost in notes and Frustration takes over before they are recovered. Same thing happened with My Space. Username, duh? Password, duh? Hi-5 samething. Twitter works, doesn't require social skills. Password is OK until computer crashes, then back to square one. Short term memory is really short. Then it's, "now where did I write username and password. Facebook said they would have music over there last week, couldn't find it last time I checked. There are  a couple of friends on facebook, I will check in on them this evening, if I remember.

The Facebook Blog | GigaOm
Facebook says it is trying to “act more like your own personal newspaper” with recent feature launches and design changes. The main “news feed” section now borrows an idea from newspaper front pages, highlighting “top stories” (the most interesting posts) before jumping into the chronological list of all recent posts from your friends. The point is to make sure users see any top stories they might have missed since they last checked the site, engineering manager Mark Tonkelowitz writes. Along with this change, there’s a new, real-time “ticker” of friends’ activity. Watch for more announcements at Facebook’s f8 conference Thursday. || Related: 5 things to know about the Facebook Subscribe feature | WSJ launches Facebook app for personalized news. by Jeff Sonderman Read here