As if most don’t already feel as if they have handed their lives over to Facebook to some degree that feeling may escalate of the announcement scheduled for tomorrow is what Liz Gannes says it is. From All Things Digital
Facebook will on Wednesday launch the Open Graph applications it first debuted last September, sources told AllThingsD. These are the apps made by outside developers that “frictionlessly” and continuously share users’ actions back to Facebook after a user has given permission once.
The new apps behave similarly to the “read,” “listen” and “watch” Open Graph applications that have already rolled out in the past few months, which include The Washington Post, Spotify and Hulu. So, every time your friends read an article or listens to a song, you might now learn about it on Facebook, and possibly even join them at the same time.
We can save the examination of how this plays out for when it, gulp, actually plays out. If the early indicators that I have seen with regard to Spotify, The Washington Post etc this could be one of the most annoying developments in Facebook for end users in a long time. But that’s me speculating isn’t it. Please forgive me.
