Online newspaper The Huffington Post has added a feature called “Social News”, allowing users to interact more with stories on the site. Powered by Facebook Connect, Social News shares stories you’re reading with friends, produces stats on your habits and lets you track the content others are interacting with. It is somewhat aggressive, however: leave the default settings on, and every click is tracked and sent to Facebook, reports All Things D . A stealth mode option lets you turn off this auto-posting to Facebook . In a press release announcing the change, founder Arianna Huffington explains: This new platform lets our community of engaged users easily share stories and

post comments for friends to see–it’s HuffPost’s version of a digital water cooler, enriching and deepening conversations around the day’s news. Social media has fundamentally changed our relationship to news. It’s no longer something we passively take in. We now engage with news, share news, react to news–news has become something around which we gather, connect, and converse. HuffPost Social News makes this more dynamic than ever. It’s another victory for Facebook Connect and social media in general: having already been integrated with NBC , it seems that newspapers are now getting on board with social integration. Reviews: Facebook

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Huffington Post Adds “Social News”