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Mark Zuckerberg once had a dream that your real life and your facebook life would become one in 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 hat 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're do in the app gets added to your time line 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 the 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 dream of a world where everything you play listen to eat or visit get share 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 open graph and so-called frictionless sharing which allowed apps like Nike+ to automatically post where you went for a run where the Washington Post's 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 auto posts would have been status thoughts