Facebook to shut down its Paper news-reading app on July 29

Facebook has announced that it would shut down Paper, the company’s news-reading on July 29. For those who have the app installed, have received a notification stating that the company would be ending support for the app and users will no longer be able to log into the app after July 29.

According to a message displayed on the app, Facebook stated, “We know that Paper really resonated with you--the people who used it--so we've tried to take the best aspects of it and incorporate them into the main Facebook app. For example, the same team that built Paper also built Instant Articles—a fast and interactive experience for reading articles in News Feed—using many of the same tools, design elements, and fundamental ideas as Paper. Our goal with Paper was to explore new immersive, interactive design elements for reading and interacting with content on Facebook, and we learned how important these elements are in giving people an engaging experience.”

'Paper' was developed specifically for the mobile platform and was to aggregate content from a variety of sources including status updates from Facebook and articles from partner media companies, just like Flipboard.