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Besides, scrobbling to Last.fm lets you enjoy all sorts of hacks and apps that run on your Last.fm profile. If sharing your music habits with Facebook freaks you out, perhaps you'd rather share them to Last.fm, to keep your musical identity separate from your Facebook identity. It continues to scrobble not only from iTunes, but from cloud-based music services. In fact, "scrobbling" to Facebook is so easy that when Facebook added the feature, we called Last.fm the biggest loser in that equation. In that one simple step, you'll start sending your listening history to Facebook, so your friends can see what you've been listening to (unless you turn off Facebook sharing). All you have to do to send your playback history to your Facebook Timeline is use your Facebook identity to log into a music service. Now, Facebook does pretty much the same thing (except for with iTunes). Screenshot by Eliot Van Buskirk/Evolver.fm Last.fm's feature for this is called "scrobbling," based on the fact that it had acquired a company called AudioScrobbler in order to add it. Long before Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to found Facebook, Last.fm allowed music fans to keep an online record of the music they had been listening to in all sorts of music players, including iTunes, Winamp, and more.