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Pardon my ignorance (I don't have a facebook account), but how does facebook even remotely do the same function as google reader? Can you put in rss feeds to yo

• morgante 11y ago
  > how does facebook even remotely do the same function as google reader? The problem which Google Reader solves is "show me some stories from a variety of sites which interest me." Facebook also solves this, admittedly in a rather different way, but it's still the same job to be done. > Can you put in rss feeds to your front page on FB? No. But that didn't keep me from replacing Google Reader with increase Facebook use.
  • loxs 11y ago
    Actually it does something kinda sorta similar with Facebook Pages and Groups. Especially now that lots of people write directly on their Pages instead of in a blog. You can "like" the page which is similar to following RSS. Admittedly, this is a lot different, as Facebook decides what you see. You are not guaranteed to see all the postings and you can't "save them for later". But it seems to work, at least for the bigger part of the population.
    • morgante 11y ago
      > You are not guaranteed to see all the postings and you can't "save them for later". Actually, Facebook does have a "save post" feature. > But it seems to work, at least for the bigger part of the population. Yup, it's a pretty suitable news/reader replacement.