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What Is Network News?

The Washington Post has just become a lot more social by integrating your Facebook friends and a wide variety of Twitter feeds with washingtonpost.com in a tool called Network News. The Facebook features allow you to easily share and view Washington Post content with your social network, including the home page, articles, blogs, video pages and more. You'll see what your friends are responding to across the site as well as the most popular Washington Post content in each major section. Since each user has a different set of friends, everyone's Network News experience will be different.

Through Twitter, we are pulling in the conversation circulating around each of our articles. You can also add a tweet by posting it straight from Network News.

How to Use the Facebook Features:

  1. Log in to your Facebook account, or log in on washingtonpost.com by using Facebook Connect.
  2. To log out, you must be signed out of both Facebook and Facebook Connect on washingtonpost.com.
  3. Discover new content your friends recommend or have shared in the Network News boxes on the home page and across the site next to articles, videos, graphics and blog posts.
  4. Participate by recommending, sharing and commenting on content. If you change your mind and don't want to recommend that content, click the "Recommend" button a second time. Your Facebook profile photo will disappear from the Network News box as a result. If you recommend or share content, you and your Facebook friends will see that in the Friends' Activity feed on Network News.
  5. Read content your network has recommended or see what Washington Post content is most popular across Facebook.
  6. See what's most popular by section in the Network News widget on article pages.
  7. Keep a profile page that shows content your Facebook friends have interacted with on washingtonpost.com.

How to Use the Twitter Features on the Article Pages:

  1. You don't need a Twitter account to read tweets.
  2. To join the conversation that's happening around an article, write your tweet in the box and hit "Tweet."

What About Privacy?

Network News is enabled through Facebook. Even when you're on Network News at washingtonpost.com, you are essentially on Facebook. You can change what information you share on Network News by changing your "likes and interests" on Facebook's privacy settings page here.

We are only displaying public Tweets. If you don't want your Tweets to be picked up by Network News, you can "protect" tweets by clicking the option to do so at the bottom of your Twitter profile page here.

How to Disable Network News:

  1. Click on the "X" in the top right-hand corner of the Network News module. Make sure you're signed in to change your preferences. If you aren't signed in to one of these three registrations – Facebook, Facebook Connect or The Washington Post – then you will be prompted to sign in to change your home page settings.
  2. Once you're signed in, you'll be taken to this page http://wapo.st/bS04pI. Scroll to the bottom and select "Disable Network News" in your preferences. Select "Update."
  3. If you have questions about Network News please email us at networknews@wpost.com.

Network News

About

What Is Network News?

The Washington Post has just become a lot more social by integrating your Facebook friends and a wide variety of Twitter feeds with washingtonpost.com in a tool called Network News. The Facebook features allow you to easily share and view Washington Post content with your social network, including the home page, articles, blogs, video pages and more. You'll see what your friends are responding to across the site as well as the most popular Washington Post content in each major section. Since each user has a different set of friends, everyone's Network News experience will be different.

Through Twitter, we are pulling in the conversation circulating around each of our articles. You can also add a tweet by posting it straight from Network News.

How to Use the Facebook Features:

  1. Log in to your Facebook account, or log in on washingtonpost.com by using Facebook Connect.
  2. To log out, you must be signed out of both Facebook and Facebook Connect on washingtonpost.com.
  3. Discover new content your friends recommend or have shared in the Network News boxes on the home page and across the site next to articles, videos, graphics and blog posts.
  4. Participate by recommending, sharing and commenting on content. If you change your mind and don't want to recommend that content, click the "Recommend" button a second time. Your Facebook profile photo will disappear from the Network News box as a result. If you recommend or share content, you and your Facebook friends will see that in the Friends' Activity feed on Network News.
  5. Read content your network has recommended or see what Washington Post content is most popular across Facebook.
  6. See what's most popular by section in the Network News widget on article pages.
  7. Keep a profile page that shows content your Facebook friends have interacted with on washingtonpost.com.

How to Use the Twitter Features on the Article Pages:

  1. You don't need a Twitter account to read tweets.
  2. To join the conversation that's happening around an article, write your tweet in the box and hit "Tweet."

What About Privacy?

Network News is enabled through Facebook. Even when you're on Network News at washingtonpost.com, you are essentially on Facebook. You can change what information you share on Network News by changing your "likes and interests" on Facebook's privacy settings page here.

We are only displaying public Tweets. If you don't want your Tweets to be picked up by Network News, you can "protect" tweets by clicking the option to do so at the bottom of your Twitter profile page here.

How to Disable Network News:

  1. Click on the "X" in the top right-hand corner of the Network News module. Make sure you're signed in to change your preferences. If you aren't signed in to one of these three registrations – Facebook, Facebook Connect or The Washington Post – then you will be prompted to sign in to change your home page settings.
  2. Once you're signed in, you'll be taken to this page http://wapo.st/bS04pI. Scroll to the bottom and select "Disable Network News" in your preferences. Select "Update."
  3. If you have questions about Network News please email us at networknews@wpost.com.
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