Facebook users - did this most recent move on Facebook's part (Trending) make any sense? To me, it makes it far less useful.

Late last week, Facebook changed the ‘Trending’ box (upper right).

It used to say a news headline in bold, like “Volcano erupts near Hawaii” and then follow it with a sentence or two of summary, so as to give some clue what the story was about. It also gave a count of how many people were reading the referred article.

Last week’s change shortened the headline – it might now say “Volcano”. They got rid of the explanatory sentence, and only show the word ‘trending’, for example: ‘56K people are talking about this’.

What a waste. It is utterly immaterial to me how many people are talking about one thing or another. Dropping the sentence that gave context – Do I really want to read this? – is, to me, a huge loss.

I know Facebook is free and they can do anything they want, but this seems even more boneheaded than some of the other things they have done.

Have you noticed?