Facebook Rolling Out ‘Trending Videos’ [REPORT]

Facebook users have encountered “trending articles” popping up in their news feeds for the past few weeks. This new feature highlights articles that are popular with your friends, ensuring you don’t miss a hot story because it gets pushed down to the bottom of your feed.

Now, Facebook is reportedly doing the same with viral videos.

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A new “trending videos” feature is being rolled out to some Facebook users, according to a report from TheNextWeb. Once you’ve got the new feature, it will auto-populate with videos your friends are watching on Facebook’s Open Graph apps.

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Facebook has been experimenting with trending articles, giving the feature a less invasive redesign late last month.

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However, plenty of Mashable readers found the feature cumbersome and annoying. One, David Holley, called it “obnoxious as hell” because it didn’t seem to actually highlight articles that his friends were reading. How could Facebook do a better job of highlighting popular articles and videos in your news feed? Let us know in the comments.

Bonus gallery: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Facebook

1. Page Views

One in every five page views in the U.S. occurred on Facebook, bringing in more than 400 billion page views this year.

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This story originally published on Mashable here.

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