Like Open Graph integrations from news sites such as The Washington Post, the new feature will make stories you're reading on the news aggregator's site automatically show up on your Facebook friends' news tickers and Timeline.
Digg is also launching a "Newsbar" that sits on top of Digg pages reached through Facebook. The most important feature of the bar is a front-and-center button that turns automatic sharing to Facebook on and off. You can also remove individual actions from Facebook tickers if you decide after the fact that you don't want to share them.
"One of the points of feedback [Facebook gave us] was to try to make it as simple as possible to activate and deactivate social sharing and even to edit what you have shared," explains Digg CEO Matt Williams.
The prominent, ever-present button Digg has dedicated to this task isn't a bad way to avoid ticking off users who don't want every move they make ending up on Tickers.
Those who do use the social sharing feature, however, will be doing Digg a favor. When you paste a link into Facebook from a page you found on Digg, you're likely driving traffic to the link's content but not to Digg. If someone clicks on an article shared automatically from the Ticker, however, they'll land on the Digg Newsbar instead.
Will you be turning on Digg's social sharing feature? Let us know why or why not in the comments.
