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Facebook introduce new feature 'Interest Lists' to sort your interests

Facebook announced that it introducing interest lists , enabling all of its users to better receive and organize information from fields of interest. Using lists on Facebook is not a new thing. There already are lists for friends and people. What you can do now, it to use Facebook as a personalized newspaper. Different feeds will be sections on relevant topics for each user. According to the official announcement , “you can find traditional news sections like Business, Sports and Style or get much more personalized—like Tech News, NBA Players, and Art Critics”. These lists are similar, in a way, to Paper.li (most used on Twitter) and, up to a point, to circles in Google+. The interest lists add new features for Facebook. There was already available an application that allowed people to read preferred publications on Facebook. Interest lists provide a good way of having all news sources in one place. “Interests feature public figures and Pages related to a particular topic.” They are cr