Years ago the fastest way to find out the news was the newspaper. Today social media has become a source for finding the most current local, and global news. The article The Facebook effects on the news implies that Facebook is more of an entertainment source rather than a source for news. I found interesting how the this article states that the news feed on Facebook is chosen by us. They say news travels fast, we tend to view our Facebook for other purposes, yet if we come across a news story we find interest in such stories. As for me I see Facebook as a form of gossip, we read something, if we can relate to it or find it resourceful to someone else we pass it along for others to read. Perhaps a new cooking recipe, or health information, and anything that is part of the entertainment world. On Twitter about 46% follow news channels, reporters, and commentators, and only 28% on Facebook. Does this mean that we are more interested on entertainment rather than current news? Not necessarily, we find interest in our local news, I follow the Sun News rather than buying the paper because I can find out the news faster.  I also find interest on any global news, natural disasters, government issues, but I only find it interesting if I come across it on my news feed. For example the separation between Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie or the battle of the presidential candidates in this years elections.
   In the case of Twitter, the article states that people go on twitter looking for current news, because in this case news travels fast. For example, I am a big football fan and I follow my favorite team on twitter, and Facebook. If I ever miss one game, I usually look on tweeter for updates on the game. Any type of news that I am interested in I will search on Twitter first, then proceed to find answers. For example, last month my sister and I were going to go to a concert. One hour before the show, my sister calls me telling me that the artist had passed away the day before. My first response was, let me log in to Facebook to find out whether the news is true or false. I proceeded to look on Facebook, but I did not find anything with that news. I then remembered my son telling me that Twitter was faster when it came to news, I then looked on Twitter and there it was many different tweets on the tragic news. Right there and then is when I confirmed that indeed Twitter was faster when it came to current news.
     An article on Pew Research Center, stated that the majority of Facebook users obtained news basically by accident. We log into Facebook to see the activities, and news from our family, and friends. We read and pick up on any type of information that we can relate to. In a research done to find out how many Facebook users logged in to search of news, only 4%  had the intention of finding news, the other 76% found out the news by accident. We do not look for news, the news finds us weather it is on Facebook or Twitter we can always be up to date on the current news.