The social network will pull information about the websites a person visits, the news stories he or she likes and the music or athletes the person favors -- and share all of that information with a person's Facebook friends.

That data will show up on Facebook.com and on other sites.

Facebook is launching Open Graph today with more than 30 content partners, including The New York Times, Yelp, the music site Pandora, ESPN and the Internet Movie Database. CNN.com also is a partner.

I don't like it automatically posting what I read and like. The point Facebook is missing is that we want to be in control of what we share and what we don't share. Isn't this spamming or bordering on Identity theft if they don't get your permission?