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I'm excited to give this a spin, and that's saying a lot considering I haven't touched FB in a few years now. It's nice to see them innovating with new ideas and products, instead of iterating on their existing main platform.

What's interesting is that their mobile strategy involves grabbing as much of your screen real estate as possible, with the FB app, FB Messenger, Instagram, and now Paper. I guess that was obvious when they tried the whole Facebook phone thing.

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It looks like a different interface on the concept that Flipboard is built around, using Facebook content instead of select news sources.

It's a neat interface, and I hope it's light enough on the hardware that it'll be as fluid as in the video (on my iPhone 4 and One S the standard Facebook app has become slow and laggy).

But, it looks like an interface that distances the user from the content, enforcing a more consumption-focused model of interaction than producer, which seems a little antithetical.

This looks like a direct clone of Flipboard! Flipboard supports fetching from your personal facebook feed, and this new facebook thing seems to support fetching from various public "interests" feeds too.

It's exciting to see them developing the platform but I feel like they are moving in the wrong direction. The success of recent startups (eg snapchat) has shown that we're moving to a more ephemeral and brief form of communication among our peers rather than sharing entire stories.

I see this as more an iteration than true innovation. It looks as though they're taking your existing Facebook content and putting it in a different wrapper. A pretty wrapper, to be sure, but in the end I think it will still be filled with things like "pg said If I get 50 million likes I can be on the front page of HN."

I think the direction Facebook is going with splitting the services in to apps that solve different use cases is a good thing. Let the user use their social graph in the specific ways they want/need to.

Personally, I mostly use FB for private messages from family members, some private groups, and their group event planning. I don't use it for the feed consumption.

I agree, it seems that new facebook strategy is to spread the use of their platform using mobile apps. This will increase their mobile ad presence. But, I'm curious if this is an indication of the weakness in their mobile ad exchange because other mobile apps which use facebook platform doesn't seem to satisfy them.

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