Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with friends and family, but it is also a great way to follow your favorite websites, artists, groups, brands, and so on. Thanks to Facebook Pages, websites, brands, musicians, and more can share content with their followers. However if a report from The New York Times is any accurate, Facebook could be interested in hosting their own content in the future.
This could potentially do away with the need to go to a separate website to consume your news, all the while keeping users logged into the social network. According to the report, Facebook’s goal is to make the consumption of online content more seamless. As it stands getting your news on Facebook would typically require you to click a link that takes you to a separate website which takes sometime to load.
However by hosting the content themselves, Facebook hopes to shave off those valuable seconds spent clicking and loading pages which they believe will be important for mobile users. At the moment Facebook is said to be in talks with websites like The New York Times, BuzzFeed, and National Geographic.
Facebook has also spoken to these websites about how they can monetize their content through ads that would run alongside it, although to be fair some of these websites already rely on their own ads. It’s an interesting idea but we have to wonder if it might be wise to give anyone that much power and control, but what say you? Is this something that sounds like it could work for you?
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