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Facebook's New Features Encourage Users To Telegraph Their Music Taste

Two updates announced Tuesday, early toe-dips that Facebook promises are only the beginning, give members of its gargantuan user base ways of sharing the music they like. But is any of this ... fun?
Facebook's new features provide new ways for users to add music to their original videos. But is any of it fun?

What do you go to Facebook for? Given how many of us use it — 68 percent of Americans, according to the Pew Research Center, with 74 percent of them visiting the site at least once a day — it's striking that, anecdotally at least, using the site evokes a

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