This paper focuses on mechanisms within social media, primarily Facebook as the lead social site for news consumption and on young people as digital nomads, who get most of their news from social media. As such they are influenced by new media practices brought on by digital culture and the dangers brought ob by speed and abundance of news on social media. The goal of the paper is to gauge the level of news consumption amoung young people, their relationship to news and the implication presented by new interaction with news on social media. This is done by qualitative research with focus groups among 19 to 26 year olds. The main findings suggest that young people are well versed in social media and realise the traps that social media bring, but often do not see it as a negative and use it for their benefit - aquiring more entertaining news, because the entertainment value is at the foremost when it comes to their news selection. Often they use unconventional media practices when interacting with news, which are a product of social media algorithms and only increase the power of the algorithm, which requires more clicks with lowest cost possible. This negatively impacts journalists and news quality which in leads to less informed society.
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