?Digg? to join in on Facebook social readers

In addition to photos, locations and comments, Facebook users will now be able to share interesting things they ?Digg? up.

Digg, a content sharing website, will join a handful of other companies by launching a social reader on Facebook this December.

When logged into both Facebook and Digg, users who activate the reader will share the headlines they are reading back to their Timeline and their friends? News Ticker.

Publications including The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Yahoo News, The Independent and The Guardian already have similar applications on Facebook, some since September.

With the new Digg social reader, users will post articles they are reading, view a history of what they read on their timeline and get recommendations on what to read, according to the Digg website.

The new reader is one of several ?frictionless? open-graph apps that share activity automatically from an external site to a user?s facebook page.

Other frictionless apps, which post that a user is ?watching,? ?reading? or ?listening to? include Spotify, Rhapsody, Netflix and Hulu, according to Facebook developers.

Jonathan Polson, a freshman at the University of Vermont says he does not use social apps on Facebook.

?People don?t need to know every little thing that I do on the internet,? Polson says.

Because the updates are posted automatically, users have raised questions about security.

?You will have control over what you share on Facebook by choosing whether to turn social sharing on or off, selecting what audience you share to and the ability to always edit your activity,? the Digg website states. ?You can also control your settings from your Activity Log on Facebook, where you can remove specific stories from your Timeline or hide them.?

Other companies report success with their Facebook readers.

Yahoo News stated, ?Since adding deep integration with Facebook?s Open Graph, more than 10 million users of the social network have activated the social news features, and Yahoo! News has seen a 600 percent increase in traffic from Facebook,? according to allfacebook.com

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