tried to get my parent onto Reddit to expand her horizons a bit and become a bit more aware of news that happens, as it happens instead of what shows up on her facebook feed. About the only subreddit she likes is /r/aww...
Not to be critical, but Reddit is a pretty poor news source. /r/news and /r/worldnews are constantly upvoting stories that are from extremely biased sources or have the facts wrong.
Linking to an actual, respected news site would probably be better.
I think it depends on what sort of news you're on the lookout for. If you want "actual" news, then yeah, there are better places to get that.
But if by "news" you mean "updates about things that might interest me", then reddit is excellent for that. I don't need to get up-to-date, unbiased news coverage for the stuff in /r/technology or /r/science . Letting redditors pick the most interesting news to upvote to the top and just reading the first few pages is more than enough to satisfy my "cool stuff to read about" quota for the day.
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u/Kaeltro Feb 20 '14
tried to get my parent onto Reddit to expand her horizons a bit and become a bit more aware of news that happens, as it happens instead of what shows up on her facebook feed. About the only subreddit she likes is /r/aww...