{"id":5450,"date":"2016-09-03T05:33:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T21:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/09\/03\/facebook-is-testing-a-new-feature-to-encourage-conversations\/"},"modified":"2016-09-03T05:33:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T21:33:34","slug":"facebook-is-testing-a-new-feature-to-encourage-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/09\/03\/facebook-is-testing-a-new-feature-to-encourage-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook is testing a new feature to encourage conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f199106%2fscreenshot_20160902-125002\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/1FqsOFNpoaaRinCTiW4vKiHUeHI=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F199106%2FScreenshot_20160902-125002.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Facebook+is+testing+a+new+feature+to+encourage+conversations&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F09%2F02%2Ffacebook-what-friends-are-talking-about%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F09%2F02%2Ffacebook-what-friends-are-talking-about%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Facebook really, really wants you to talk to your friends.<\/p>\n<p>The company is testing a new feature \u2014 &#8220;What friends are talking about&#8221; \u2014 in some News Feeds<em>Mashable <\/em>spotted it Friday in the Android version of Facebook&#8217;s mobile app, though it&#8217;s possible other users on different platforms may have seen it earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The feature collects posts from your friends in a special section of your News Feed, just a little bit down from the top, and highlights how many comments the content received from other people. It&#8217;s roughly the size of one image post in your News Feed, meaning you get a little more bang for your buck.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/09\/02\/facebook-what-friends-are-talking-about\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/news-feed\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">News Feed<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/social-media\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Social Media<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/facebook\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/facebook-app\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Facebook App<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/BCTwm7B6yCA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook really, really wants you to talk to your friends. The company is testing a new feature \u2014 &#8220;What friends are talking about&#8221; \u2014 in some News FeedsMashable spotted it Friday in the Android version of Facebook&#8217;s mobile app, though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/09\/03\/facebook-is-testing-a-new-feature-to-encourage-conversations\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[851,4078,4077,783,725],"class_list":["post-5450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-app","tag-news-feed","tag-social-media","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}