“We built Facebook to help people stay connected and bring us closer together with the people that matter to us. Research shows that strengthening our relationships improves our well-being and happiness.” So said Mark Zuckerberg as he announced a new Facebook newsfeed that would emphasize friends over popular content from the around the web. In other words, more interacting with each other, and less interacting with (often fake) news. From Wired: Facebook tweaks newsfeed to favor content from friends. (Unfortunately, we all got so heated about politics that we don’t have any friends left…)

+ Buzzfeed: The comment is the new share.

+ “Instead of clobbering Facebook one more time, media should now thank it.” Franklin Foer: Facebook Finally Blinks.