Facebook recently announced that they are starting to group related news items on user’s feeds by topic as shown in this example below.

It seems that, as usual, a percentage of people are unhappy with the change. I think it’s a good thing, with more and more information being pumped through our news feeds it only seems sensible and also user friendly to group relevant topics. Facebook has been doing this for a while by grouping Twitter posts that are fed through to a user’s Facebook profile. Although it tends to group Twitter posts from any friend as a posed to Twitter posts from that one user which doesn’t seem intuitive.