Facebook wants you to ‘explore’ a new News Feed

Facebook is testing a secondary News Feed in the beta version of the app on Android. Some users have noticed a similar feature being tested on iOS in early January.

In the latest beta update, the current version of the News Feed remains as the "Home" tab and the new "Explore" tab is a combination of photos, videos and articles that are tailored to the user's interests, notably - from pages they have not liked or followed. The tab is similar to Instagram's Search and Explore tab. 

For example, my Explore tab is filled with pages closely related to those I've already liked, such as the entertainment vertical of a news site, a video popular with my friends, an article popular in my network and of course, memes. Above video stories, the feed also shows you how many of your friends have watched the video. Read more...