Read Facebook updates in Google Reader (or any other RSS tool)

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An enterprising chap over on LiveJournal (yes, his profile is suitably emo) has written a guide on how to import Facebook RSS feeds into your feed reader!

Most of the feeds you might've seen before -- there's a little RSS feed button on the posts, notes, and notifications pages -- but this guide includes a neat way to extract your friends' status updates as well.

Head to your Notes page (http://www.facebook.com/notes.php), hit the 'Subscribe to these Notes' on the right, then change the URL to read 'friends_status.php' rather than 'friends_notes.php'. Leave the rest of the URL untouched. Voila!

This is the kind of thing you've always wanted to do, but a) you're not sure if you can be bothered, or b) is it really worth it? If you're like me, you probably curse the number of unread items in your RSS reader. Lifehacker suggests it's a good way of avoiding FarmVille and MafiaWars spam, but isn't that what the 'hide' option is for on your News page?

Read Facebook updates in Google Reader (or any other RSS tool) originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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