Apart from the yet to be launched, heavily revamped Facebook Timeline and profile pages that will be launched in the past and coming weeks (also read the articles: What's good for Facebook is good for me by Elja Daae and You've officially been Facebooked by Bastiaan Neurink ), one of these innovations could well ensure that you will soon be in for a few big surprises.
For those who aren’t quite up to date, Facebook is making sharing information easier with new features within Open Graph. One of the most notable features within Open Graph is ‘contextual sharing’. The benefits for users are clear. Where today costa rica phone number list you regularly share something with your friends via the now famous “Like” button, in the future you only have to click on “Add to Timeline” on a website or app.
Simplifying contextual sharing is possible by introducing so-called connected apps. Of course, these applications do exactly what you think. The app can be linked to your Facebook profile on any website. With the connected apps, you can ensure that your friends are informed 24/7 about what exactly you are up to online. From the news articles you read online in the morning, the videos you see, the photos you look at, the music you listen to, or any other action within the website or app. With contextual sharing, marketers no longer have to pigeonhole users based on that one emotional click reaction.