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Imagine that your morning paper, news show, or radio program included an additional section that featured articles solely about the specific people you know. That’s a description of News Feed. As long as the people you know are active on Facebook, you can stay up-to-date with their lives via your News Feed. One friend might post photos from his recent birthday party, another might write a post about her new job, and a third might publish a public event for her upcoming art show. These could all appear as stories in your Facebook News Feed.

A News Feed bonus: You can often use it to stay up-to-date on current events just by seeing what your friends are talking about or by liking (or following) the Pages of real-world news organizations and getting their updates in your News Feed. And when there’s unusual weather, Facebook is often where you'll find out about it by way of a flurry of posts.

News Feed is one of the most interesting things about Facebook but also one of the hardest to explain. No matter how we describe seeing a photo of a friend and her new baby pop up in News Feed, it won’t be as exciting as when a friend posts those photos. However, we do our best to capture at least a bit of this excitement in Chapter 4.

At the top of News Feed is the share box, shown in Figure 3-4. You use this box to add content to Facebook: status posts, photos, links to articles you find interesting, and so on. These posts also go into your News Feed and may appear in your friends' News Feed. Your friends can then comment, like, and generally interact with you about your post.

FIGURE 3-4: Share what’s on your mind.