Wednesday, September 21, 2011

WSJ Goes Social

So many people are getting their news online through social media. Major news companies like the Wall Street Journal are having to find the pros and cons between piggybacking off of big social network sites like Facebook and having their own methods of keeping audiences on their sites.

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal launched WSJ Social, a social graph that filters news content to users who can easily pick and choose what they want to follow. And its interface lies in the Facebook application.

The idea behind it is that the news content should be where users already are. If so many people get their news on Facebook and spend so many hours on the site, why not just get the news on Facebook also?

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