News publications are coming forward to Facebook asking for their content to be available on the website

Mar 24, 2015 13:22 GMT  ·  By

If you were having difficulties clicking on external links to get to a site from your Facebook profile, then this piece of news will have you jumping for joy.

According to the New York Times, Facebook has been in talks with several media companies which want the tech giant to host their content on the website. Some of the publications  apparently trying to make this happen are The New York Times, Buzzfeed, National Geographic and The Huffington Post.

What made news publications resort to this?

The reason that has determined the publications to go to this extent is mainly related to the fact that their websites usually take some time to load and there are users who prefer not to click on the external links at all, especially when they are using their mobile phones, which means most of the time.

Furthermore, Facebook is expected to start testing this idea in the following months, which means that things might go faster than expected.

It should be mentioned that this new proposal would be a step forward for advertisers as well, as it would seem that the ads will also appear alongside the news article. This might not be of real interest to people as they are used to an increasing number of ads on Facebook.

More online newspapers are expected to join in since the movement is expected to be a successful one.

Users should also be able to benefit from this given they that it will take them a whole lot less to read the news. However, it remains to be seen how Facebook plans to implement these changes in the near future, in a way that both the publications and the users are satisfied with the result.

As a reaction to this news, there were people who commented on the fact the Facebook might not allow the hosted publications to write any negative or unfavorable articles about the social network, and they might have a point, but we can only wait and see what happens if such an instance takes place. Will Facebook simply remove the content or will it pretend it never happened?