Looking for information you can use when scrolling through your Facebook news feed?
Want to enjoy learning something new next time you go online?
There is a lot more to Facebook than pet tricks, cookie recipes, and sharing vacation photographs. These are my top 10 websites to follow on Facebook.
Facebook is a valuable resource to stay connected to your favorite websites, keep up with technology and learn about new and interesting subjects.
Top 10 Websites to Follow on Facebook
Here is a list of 10 websites to follow on Facebook that can actually make you smarter:
1. Lifehacker
Lifehacker is a computers and Internet website devoted to life hacks and software. You will find a mixture of tips, tricks, and downloads for getting things done on this extremely useful site. Their posts cover an assortment of topics including updates on using Facebook, how to de-clutter your house, managing finances, making flavored sea salt, jobs in tech and applying time management.
Their Facebook About section says:
“Lifehacker curates tips, tricks, and technology for living better in the digital age. Lifehacker’s an award-winning daily blog that features tips, shortcuts, and downloads that help you work and live smarter and more efficiently. To help you save time and get things done.”
2. Mashable
Mashable is a media, news, and publishing website. They provide social media news and entertainment. Plus information about software, business and web development, technology and gadgets. Their posts cover many different subjects including popular sports news, movie and music reviews, strange things listed on eBay, a dog that is a Twitter superstar, and jaw-dropping space photographs.
Mashable’s slogan is:
“Mashable is the leading media company for the Connected Generation and the voice of digital culture.”
Their Facebook About section says:
“Latest digital, social media, business, tech, entertainment and mobile news from Mashable.com, the top resource and guide for digital culture.”
3. wikiHow
wikiHow is a reference website and a collaborative effort made possible by an international volunteer community of writers and editors. They specialize in providing the best helpful step-by-step instructions available on a topic anywhere. With wikiHow, you can learn how to start running, reprogram your brain, use coconut oil, how to deliver a baby, how to make a Cuban sandwich, how to upgrade a laptop and just about anything else you can think of.
wikiHow’s mission:
“By creating the world’s most helpful instructions, we will empower every person on the planet to learn how to do anything.”
4. OMG Facts
OMG Facts is a news and media website that delivers a collection of news and media fact posts. Their specialty is providing interesting facts you can share. Their posts are designed to go viral. Topics include weird foods from around the world, why cats love boxes, what animals look like hairless, facts about pregnancy, what beer people drink around the world, and facts about the Suicide Forest in Japan.
Their Facebook About section says:
“Want more facts? Go to omgfacts.com or follow us on twitter @OMGFacts *** This is the OFFICIAL OMG Facts Page ***”
5. Make Use Of
Make Use Of is a computers and Internet website. They deliver the latest technology news in a format that is interesting and fun. By following them, you will learn everything from how to switch from MAC to Windows, how Bing Rewards works, how to use new mobile apps, how to speed up Chromebook to where to buy custom modded game controllers.
Their Facebook About section says:
“We are just a bunch of regular folks who happen to be obsessed with the Internet and would like to share our passion with others. Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips — that’s our motto. That’s what goes through our minds when we’re hard at work, writing articles about the apps that we’re testing. Why does the reader need to know about this? How will it benefit everyone? Is it cool?”
6. TechCrunch
Techcrunch is a news and media website that specializes in providing the most up-to-date news in technology. They will tell you what tech companies are doing to expand business and where, about advances in technology for healthcare, what new software and gadgets are being developed for business, about new apps like how to get a restaurant recommendation from a chef, and they bring great interviews with industry insiders and executives.
Their Facebook About section says:
“Breaking technology news and analysis. The number one guide for all things tech. Breaking technology news, analysis, and opinions from TechCrunch.com. We profile startup companies, products, and websites, and we are the number one guide for all things tech.”
7. TEDEd
TedEd is an education website. They specialize in providing lessons in videos. You can also create your own lessons and edit lessons on their website. TedEd posts include Einstein’s miracle year, why tragedies are alluring, what’s so super about superheroes, how pregnancy tests work, the dangers of stereotyping, how to spot a liar, and why honeybees love hexagons.
Their Facebook About section says:
“TED-Ed is TED’s education initiative. Our mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators and students around the world. http://ed.ted.com. TED-Ed’s mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos. Our site, http://ed.ted.com/, features these new TED-Ed Originals as well as some powerful new learning tools.“
8. OnEarth
OnEarth is a magazine website that offers useful information about climate change, natural resources, animals, and conservation. Their articles include subjects like x-rays of coral skeletons for historical climate research, wacky and smart ways Californians are coping with water shortages, stunning bee portraits, the timing between volcanic eruptions, plankton-eating plastic, and the plight of the Florida panther.
Their Facebook About section says:
“OnEarth is the magazine of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit advocacy group that takes on the biggest threats to the environment. Founded in 1979 as the Amicus Journal, onEarth is published today as a bi-monthly digital magazine, providing in-depth reporting and thought leadership on environmental problems and solutions. NRDC also publishes Earthwire, a daily news feed that aggregates, explains, and analyzes the day’s most compelling and significant environmental news.”
9. Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian Magazine is a news, media, publishing website dedicated to the arts, history, sciences, and culture. Their posts cover topics such as what a Bontebok is, what killed dinosaurs found in Utah, what real vampires are, ‘hempcrete’ being used to build homes, details from New Horizons about Pluto, and the secrets of Disneyland.
Their Facebook About section says:
“Smithsonian magazine is a monthly magazine created for modern, well-rounded individuals with diverse interests. It chronicles the arts, history, sciences and popular culture of the times. Our photos, articles, videos and slideshows take a dynamic and interactive approach to exploring our changing world.”
10. LiveScience
LiveScience is a science website devoted to reporting on science, health, and the environment. By following them, you will learn about what is happening to bumblebees, a look at a rare Harpy eagle chick, a new hybrid robot, strange facts about Nikola Tesla, how scientists date ancient things, when earth’s largest shark disappeared, and odd facts about marijuana.
Their Facebook About section says:
“The best in science, technology, health, and environmental reporting. http://LiveScience.com. LiveScience is articles, video, photos, community, trivia, and quizzes about the world around you. Owned and operated by Tech Media Network.”
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Thank you for reading Top 10 Websites to Follow on Facebook. Do you have a favorite website you follow on Facebook? Leave it in a comment below!
Hey there GinaGo, Awesome site well put together!
Short and to the point is perfect. It is a great idea to offer a free gift. I like the way it softly floated to the front of my attention. I hate when a pop up just comes one after the other over load the information I am looking for.
I would continue to touch up here and there to keep it looking fresh and exciting.
Great Job!
Hi Jameset aka David!, Thanks for the feedback for my email opt-in. It is something new I am trying. I do not like popups, especially the ones that darken the page and popup over and over. Drives me mad. Thanks so much for the nice comments about my site. I am working on it. I struggle to get content published regularly because I am probably being to picky, but I want my articles to be good and have value so I am aiming for quality over quantity to the best of my abilities. Thank you! ~Gina
Hi loved your website. Have found a few interesting pages to follow on facebook thanks.
Liked your style of writing even though you think it is a bit stiff. Your writing style works well with your niche as does your theme. i loved your post about twitter and will take a few tips away with me.
I also like the fact that you offer a free gift a good marketing idea.
Overall you have the start of a good website keep up the good work.
Hi Jo, I appreciate your encouraging note about my writing. I like the Twitter article too. I am building my followers to use the tools myself. In the niche of blogging, it is important to give a lot of value and I am working to build out my website more to provide additional free resources along with my posts. Thanks so much for the kind words! ~Gina
These are great suggestions! I followed every single one of these sites. I can guarantee that at least a couple will definitely come in handy. It’ll be a refreshing change to some of the foolishness I see on my timeline currently. OMG Facts is my favorite. Following them will remind me to visit their website.
Hi Shemari, I am glad you liked the post and appreciate you leaving a comment. Thank you! ~Gina
Great article on top 10 websites to follow on facebook. I don’t use a lot of facebook but checking these ones out really makes me to reconsider it again. But as you seem to be an expert in this subject, could you give your insight what of these option is the best to follow if you just had one to pick from? Thanks a lot and hope to hear from you soon!
Hi Jesse, I am not an expert.:) But, I do like Facebook and use it quite a lot. The best page to follow is Mashable. They share a wide range of trending topics using brief viral content and video. Thank you for asking! ~Gina
Hi Gina,
A great list of sites to follow on Facebook. Unfortunately, I don’t have much time to spend on Facebook and although I knew a number of the websites you mention I had never thought of looking them up on social media sites. So I took a moment to check some of them out and of course I found some interesting articles. In fact, once you start reading or watching a video is hard to stop. Anyway, I learned some new facts about climate change and there are some other articles I would like to continue reading, but I’ve got to get back to work. Thanks for the post,
Peter
Hi Peter! It is easy to spend too much time on FB. I try to limit it myself. Glad you found some things you like. Nice to hear from you and thank you for leaving a comment. ~Gina
Hello. Great post.Thank you for the informative post on which websites to follow from a bloggers perspective. Being a blogger myself , this information can be a very valuable resource for my article research. I particularly like TED ed and find it very beneficial offering different views and ideas from people around the world.
Hi Johnny, Thank you for stopping by and letting me know you liked it! ~Gina
Hi Gina
That is an awesome list of websites, I do follow a few but some are new that I never heard of.
Web sites 4 and 5 look really interesting and look forward to visiting them.
A few of them may actually help me with my online business.
Thank you for putting them together.