Facebook Makes Big Changes and 3 Social Media Stocks Seeing Action

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Finally, Facebook’s News Feed has gotten the highly-anticipated facelift in a design overhaul mimicking Facebook’s shift to a highly-visual aesthetic over the past two years. The change is to begin on the web today, and phone and tablet updates are expected to occur over the next couple weeks. As Mark Zuckerberg just announced at his company’s headquarters this morning, he hopes to make Facebook’s News Feed each user’s “best personalized newspaper you can have” with social and local updates on a number of topics. He added, “We also believe [it] should be visual, rich, and engaging…Because News Feed supports such a broad range of content types, the format has to change as well…News Feed has become primarily about visual content,” noting that currently, photos make up around 30 percent of all News Feed content.