With more and more people becoming acquainted with technology, individuals, especially younger ones, are more likely to open up their laptops or smart phone devices to check current news.  You don't find many students these days that prefer paying for a paper.  Most would rather catch up at their convenience.  In saying this, though Facebook started out as a means for communicating and promoting businesses, but  more recently turned into a digital newspaper itself.  Very frequently articles are popping up, whether it be on the side or main news feed, and viewers are actually paying attention.  In reality, Facebook is becoming a main educator about the news and individuals are becoming more involved with topics that are happening locally and worldwide.  Facebook allows articles to be not only posted, but shared by millions.  Most of these articles are very current and are keeping people involved, which in turn is allowing there to be a higher opinion response rate.  Many didn't expect Facebook to become a source of education, but in reality, it continually provides us with the news that we might have not heard elsewhere.


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