The day and age of reading the newspaper in the morning has almost (if not already) become an obsolete concept. Everyone knows that the new way to get any information on current events, whether they’re about your friends or about the world, is via the Internet.
Facebook released an app today that does just that. They’ve highlighted all the things that people want to see to update themselves and consolidated them all into one app—Paper.
So, let’s talk about Paper. You open the app and it directly opens up your Facebook, essentially displaying your news feed in a very newspaper, almost Pinterest-esque, style. The part that I liked the best is that when I’m looking through my newsfeed, my focus is usually centered on the pictures and all the graphics. That’s what this app does best.
However, Facebook didn’t just limit themselves to personal lives this time. They included the possibility to browse through blogs by category. Like, I can essentially have a newsfeed for all my tech blogs and photography blogs. And this is a great feature to make it customizable for each person and being able to access all my news from just one app.
As a bonus, they’ve made the experience even better for the user; they made the interface a very swipey one. Slide up to view a post, down to go back to your main screen, pinch in to exit an article, and pinch out to focus on. My personal favorite was when you’re viewing a picture, you don’t even need to touch the screen to pan across the pic—just tilt the phone in the direction you want to look and the picture detects the movement and pans accordingly.
I mean, in my opinion, Facebook Paper has done a solidly amazing job. Kudos to them for a great app.
P.S. – Not only good job with the great app, but good call on making it an entirely new app. That way people don’t get fussy over forcing them to adapt to a change! I’m proud of you, Facebook!
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