 Mark Zuckerberg once had a dream that your real life and your Facebook life would become one and the same. Well, sometimes dreams don't come true. I'm Sam Sheffer and this is 90 Seconds on the Verge. Connecting the app and your timeline together. You're adding all of the activity and history in the app to your timeline and you're going to automatically keep them in sync going forward. So that way anything that you do in the app gets added to your timeline. That was Mark Zuckerberg in 2011. Starting today, Facebook is taking a big step back from automatically posting to your Facebook page. With this new update, auto-posted stories from apps like Spotify and Pinterest will begin showing up less and less in your newsfeed. While these may just sound like privacy updates to benefit people looking to separate their real life from their Facebook life, there's actually much more to the picture. This actually signals the beginning of the end to Mark Zuckerberg's dream of a world where everything you play, listen to, eat, or visit gets shared to Facebook automatically in real time. Facebook has always been about sharing what you do in life with your friends online, but the idea of connected apps reached a climax in early 2011 with the introduction of OpenGraph and so-called frictionless sharing, which allowed apps like Nike Plus to automatically post where you went for a run or the Washington Post to share stories you've read. But it turns out the world just wasn't ready for that kind of connectivity. In the end though, this is all part of Facebook's ever-evolving history. I mean, just take a look at how your profile has changed over the last decade. For more on Facebook, check out The Verge. Coming up, we take a look at what the future of autoposts would have been. Status thoughts.
 Mark Zuckerberg once had a dream that your real life and your Facebook life would become one and the same.
 Well, sometimes dreams don't come true.
 I'm Sam Sheffer and this is 90 Seconds on the Verge.
 Connecting the app and your timeline together.
 You're adding all of the activity and history in the app to your timeline
 and you're going to automatically keep them in sync going forward.
 So that way anything that you do in the app gets added to your timeline.
 That was Mark Zuckerberg in 2011.
 Starting today, Facebook is taking a big step back from automatically posting to your Facebook page.
 With this new update, auto-posted stories from apps like Spotify and Pinterest
 will begin showing up less and less in your newsfeed.
 While these may just sound like privacy updates to benefit people looking to separate their real life from their Facebook life,
 there's actually much more to the picture.
 This actually signals the beginning of the end to Mark Zuckerberg's dream
 of a world where everything you play, listen to, eat, or visit
 gets shared to Facebook automatically in real time.
 Facebook has always been about sharing what you do in life with your friends online,
 but the idea of connected apps reached a climax in early 2011 with the introduction of OpenGraph
 and so-called frictionless sharing, which allowed apps like Nike Plus to automatically post where you went for a run
 or the Washington Post to share stories you've read.
 But it turns out the world just wasn't ready for that kind of connectivity.
 In the end though, this is all part of Facebook's ever-evolving history.
 I mean, just take a look at how your profile has changed over the last decade.
 For more on Facebook, check out The Verge.
 Coming up, we take a look at what the future of autoposts would have been.
 Status thoughts.