Yahoo News Activity Automatically Shares News With Friends

Social media is now a popular source for communication, employment and sharing news stories. Google is constantly trying to promote its search engine by adding more updates every day. On the other hand,Facebook is adding new features and redefining social networking standards.
Amidst all this, Yahoo seemed to be shutting most of its services and downsizing. However, recently, Yahoo added new features to its search engine. The latest update is about integrating Yahoo news with Facebook social network

Yahoo News Activity Automatically Shares News With Friends

Today, millions of online users access Facebook to share all important events and activities, with their friends and family. It has become the best way to communicate with people online. Now, Yahoo is integrating its U.S edition of the Yahoo News vertical with that of Facebook.

What does this integration of Yahoo News and Facebook mean to an online user? This means that online users can now share interesting Yahoo News stories with friends on Facebook. Moreover, this also allows you to view what your friends are reading on Yahoo News.

You can read archived news articles and stories on Yahoo Facebook activity wall. Interestingly, you can add the ‘featured reader’ setting to control the news stories your share. All you need to do is visit the Yahoo news web page and login with your Facebook username and begin using this feature to share news stories with friends and read archived articles.

Yahoo News Integrating With Facebook

This recent integration with Facebook social network is just another step to increase the visibility and popularity of Yahoo’s News channel. Yahoo aims to attract online audience for more time by integrating with the social network giant- Facebook. Online users can see the stories read by their friends or share someinteresting news with the Facebook connections.

This Facebook feature on Yahoo news is an optional one. This means that users can turn it off if they do not wish to use the Yahoo-Facebook integration. Soon, Yahoo also plans to include its mobile application that will enable users to share television programs with friends on Facebook.

Right now, it is the integration of Yahoo news with Facebook. Soon, we might find other channels like Yahoo media, properties and international markets, to be integrating on Facebook. Users of Yahoo news can now find interesting news articles for their friends or family, and share it with one click of the mouse, on their Facebook profile. This feature has a few prompts and privacy controls that enable users to have full control over sharing the news stories. You may enable or disable these prompts and settings as per your convenience.

Numerous online users are already sharing Yahoo news and other stories with friends on Facebook. Hence, this integration will now make it easier to connect and discuss news stories on this social network.