every song I listen to is automatically shared to Facebook . Suddenly , my listening experience is n't private . It 's public . All my Facebook friends are watching . And judging . Chances are this will affect people 's behavior online . If you 're a closet fan of Lady Gaga or Bjork or Enya -LRB- I 'm all three -RRB- , then you 'll just have to stop listening to those potentially mockable artists -- either that , or all your Facebook friends will be chiming in with comments : `` OMG , you 're listening to that ?! '' In the old world of Facebook , I would have to click that I `` liked '' a song for it to show up on my Facebook profile page . That 's something you have to think about : `` OK , I really like this song , and I really want all of my friends to know that I 'm listening to it right now . '' Now , sharing is both passive and automatic . It 's a choice you make in advance -- one time -- and never again . And so it goes
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- A couple years ago , a Microsoft researcher named Gordon Bell embarked on a personal experiment : He would wear a video camera around his neck all the time and keep this `` life recorder '' always turned on , so it would record everything he did . It was like an external memory drive for his brain , he wrote in a book called `` Total Recall . '' Sounds pretty sci-fi , right ? Not so much . The `` real-time sharing '' updates Facebook announced Thursday aim to do something quite similar -- only for the Internet instead of in real life . Before we get into the details and implications , here 's a `` real-time '' example of how the updates , which are rolling out in the coming weeks , will work : As I write this , I 'm listening to the band LCD Soundsystem on an Internet music service called Spotify . Because I 've updated my Facebook page -LRB- here 's a TechCrunch article on how to do that if you 're interested -RRB- and because I 've logged in to Spotify with my Facebook identity ,