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 theofficial 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 created by people using the network. The system is simple: top stories appear in the users news feed, so any user sees all new headlines and accesses only those of interest for more details.