Facebook News Feed Update Rumors: Social Network to Remove Links & Post Full Articles on Page

Social network giant Facebook wants to make small changes in the users' news feed. Instead of just providing a link for articles, the social networking site now wants to present the articles in the news feed section.

Latin Post reports that Facebook claims that on an average it takes just about eight seconds to load an article from the links now displayed in the users' news feed. It feels that some mobile users may not like to wait for such long to read these articles.

Currently, when a user clicks a link to an article, it normally opens up a new web browser window or may even ask them to download the mobile app to read the article. Some times it may even ask the user to open up the mobile version of the site.

In order to fix this issue, Facebook wishes to display news articles in the news feed directly. Already Facebook has been talking to The New York Times, BuzzFeed and many other news outlets usher in this change.

According to the report, Facebook intends to develop a paid partnership with the news organization. However, details regarding the revenue share have not been made available yet, but Facebook has said that engagement will increase on these articles as the change is made.

It is worth mentioning here that Google News also offers snippets of articles on its page. However, Facebook would like to have the entire article displayed on the site or the mobile app. All said and done, many are of the view that a number of news sites may possibly disapprove of the idea of people reading entire articles on Facebook, because the news sites may be losing revenue from advertisement if this happens.

Nevertheless, many news sites are already said to be in talks with Facebook on this issue. For instance, The New York Times is in intensive talks with Facebook regarding the financial details involved with the plan.

Edward Kim, SimpleReach chief executive who spoke to the NYT about how this may help Facebook with their users being more willing to visit the site, said, "But there are a lot of implications for publishers," adding, "It really comes down to how Facebook structures this, and how they can ensure this is a win on both sides."

Facebook has, however, not released a timeline on when this change could occur, but it certainly appears that the company wants to show users the news right in the timeline.