Can't Get Your News From Facebook Anymore Try These 6 Apps
0Can't Get Your News From Facebook Anymore Try These 6 Apps.
You may have heard about Facebook's recent pledge to cut back on News Feed traffic coming from brands, businesses, and publishers. The pledge is coupled with Facebook's 2018 resolution to take more responsibility for the wellbeing of its users—as well as, perhaps, the fake news epidemic of the last few years.
If you get your news primarily from Facebook, you may notice a growing void in your News Feed in the coming months. Maybe you'll miss interacting with the news like you used to: liking stories, sharing articles, joining the treacherous comment thread your cousin started. Even if you don't miss that stuff, you'll still need to get your news as Facebook begins its reincarnation.
Thankfully, a growing number of news-curating and news-aggregating apps are available either on your phone or through your desktop web browser. I can recommend these six based on their usability, their clean design, and their social sharing features.
Sync your Nuzzel account to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and the app shows you a feed of the top articles and videos circulating within your social and professional networks. Nuzzle studies what your friends on those platforms are reading and discussing, so if the people you follow are all talking about a hot news story, you'll see it here. To see what's popular outside your immediate circle, check out what your "Friends of Friends" are reading. You can find this feed in the dropdown menu that sits in the top-left corner of the app. Just below the "Friends of Friends" option, you can also browse the "The Best of Nuzzel" to see the most popular news stories across to whole platform. The app also lets you create your own newsletter; a curated news feed of top stories that can be easily shared with your friends. It's available as an app for iOS or Android, and you can read your feed in a browser. Plus, its icon is a hedgehog.