By Helen A.S. Popkin
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Hey Facebook curmudgeons! Your days of?avoiding Facebook's Timeline ? either out of passivity or an understandable hatred of change ? are coming to an end.
On Wednesday, the world's all-encompassing social network is expected to announce Facebook "Actions," All Things D reports. This latest update to Facebook's Open Graph?will share even more of everything you do elsewhere on the Internet with all your close, personal Facebook friends. It's all part of the "frictionless sharing" Facebook introduced at its f8 developer's conference in September, which began with?the Ticker and Timeline.
Actions is the next step in Facebook's Open Graph,?and?you already know a little bit about how Actions will work via Read, Listen and Watch ? which (if you've allowed the apps to access your profile) share stories you've read, music you're listening to and videos you've watched on participating sites.
Now that Actions is expanding to likely include other things you do, such as "cook" or "purchase" or "Jazzercize" or whatever, Facebook?will?no doubt require everyone to use?Timeline.
"That?s because Open Graph and Timeline go hand in hand; the idea is for each user?s activity across various Web sites and apps, both on and off of Facebook, to be aggregated as a visual living record of his or her life," All Things D points out.
Word has it plenty of developers are ready to get in on the Facebook Actions action, and it only makes sense. If you're interested in an Action your friend just posted via his or her profile, you click on it, and outside websites get that sweet sweet traffic.?
What else can we expect from?Facebook actions? All Things?D anticipates: "Along with the new verbs will surely come Facebook?s usual problems: Unanticipated incursions into user privacy, people who hate change, and profligate oversharing."
via All Things D
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