Not all news is created equal. The Pew Research Center also has charts that show what kind of news people get through Facebook and what they do with the news they access on social media. The latter shows how much news really has become a two-way conversation with the advent of the Internet and, more particularly, social media.
What we don't see on the Facebook chart is breaking news. Pew says that while other sites like Twitter are all about sharing news as it's happening, Facebook is less so. Perhaps that's at least partly because of the way people generally use Facebook — for entertainment and connecting with friends.
We've talked in class this semester about the impact that social media has on news consumption. We also know the importance of visual elements to a story, so here are a couple of charts from the Pew Research Center that demonstrate how people use social media to access news.
