Wednesday Words: News Feed

Okay, so today's word is an easy one - and probably a gimme - but as there are people who may not know certain words or may still be new to social media, we'll go ahead and define "News Feed."

The generic, non-social-network-specific, definition is a feed full of news.  With social media, we can use the term "news" loosely.

For Facebook, your news feed is what you see when you first login to Facebook.  It's all the posts from friends and families that they've posted as well as some posts from the pages and people you follow/like.  With Facebook you have the choice of reading Top Stories or Most Recent - and yes, it has a tendency to default to Top Stories randomly when you aren't expecting it and you have to tell it to go back.

Twitter's News Feed is called Timeline - not to be confused with Facebook profile Timelines).  This is where you can see everyone's tweets and retweets of people you follow as well as sponsored Tweets you may be interested in.  This is different from your profile where you see only your tweets.

Google's news feed is your "home" page in Google+.

I'm not sure if there are other "news feeds" out there, but those are the three dominant ones.

Wednesday Words are a series of definitions released on Wednesday each week regarding a word found specific to Facebook's social media platform, or may be a generic word dealing with social media.  These definitions are to help provide you with a better understanding of common and uncommon terms associated with Facebook and social media.   You can find all the Wednesday Words by clicking on the Wednesday Words tag below.