So you might see upcoming events based on what your friends are doing, or highlights of NPR broadcasts.

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And the new profile changes make it much easier to discover what your friends are doing in apps or elsewhere on Facebook.

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"If you're not playing along at the time the show is being broadcast, you both don't get to see what your friends are doing, and they don't get to see what you're doing, " said Matt Millar, founder of Live Talk Back.

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Merely glance at any digital gadget and you learn immediately what all your friends are doing, seeing, hearing, browsing, buying and thinking now and (if you care) what's going on now any place on earth.

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The ticker shows what your friends on Facebook are doing right now.

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Using so-called reality instant messaging, a software "robot" monitors what you and your friends are doing--watching the same TV shows on different sets, say, or downloading the same song from Eminem--and links all of you via cell phone.

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