( CNN ) -- Your friends do n't need to know about every song you hear on the radio . That 's the position Pandora has taken toward a new Facebook feature that lets users automatically publish information to their profiles about songs they listen to , videos they watch and articles they read . Pandora , which makes the popular personalized Internet radio service , is n't just concerned about clutter in your Facebook friends ' news feeds . Some listeners could feel violated when they learn that an application is broadcasting information about their activities , Pandora executives said . `` It 's true that music is a social experience , but it 's also a very private experience , '' Pandora founder Tim Westergren said in a recent phone interview . `` We have to be very cautious . '' Facebook is poised to release new features at a news conference on Wednesday that will allow users to automatically publish information from other websites and apps to their Timeline profiles , according to a person familiar with the project . These will go beyond the Facebook Music app that 's already available , the person said . For example , a fitness program that tracks physical activities could send Facebook an update after a long jog . The plans were reported earlier by the website All Things Digital . A Facebook spokesman declined to comment . At a news conference in September , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said people would benefit from publishing more data and letting computer algorithms sort out what 's important . `` No activity is too big or too small to share , '' Zuckerberg said . `` You do n't have to 'Like ' a movie . You just watch a movie . '' Facebook will press on without the support of some major app makers , such as Apple , whose iTunes software is the No . 1 digital jukebox . An Apple spokesman did not respond to a request for comment . A spokeswoman for Flipboard , an app that creates personalized magazines from social network feeds , has said the company does n't plan to send information to Facebook about every article users read and will instead let users selectively post with a share button . She said people probably would n't want to broadcast everything . Pandora has supported many of Facebook 's platform development efforts in the past . Pandora launched Facebook sharing features when they were first rolled out and was among the first to support Facebook 's Instant Personalization program , which automatically recognizes a Pandora visitor 's Facebook account . `` We have a great relationship with Facebook , '' a Pandora spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail . `` We continue to be excited about what they are doing and more generally about the social dimension of music -- for example , there are a host of great new social features on the new Pandora.com site that we launched in September . '' Pandora 's feed can be tweaked or edited by each user , but only includes information when a user creates a new radio station or bookmarks or clicks the thumbs-up button on a particular song or artist . It does n't post a feed of every song that plays . Facebook lets users manage which apps can publish to their profiles using a page called the Activity Log . In an interview with reporters in September , Facebook CTO Bret Taylor said the company 's long-term goal is to have every app support the auto-publish features . Earlier partners have said that the tools have brought in hordes of newcomers to their websites . Pandora is one of many that is reluctant to sign on , but its absence from Facebook Music is noticeable . `` There is a segment for sure that wants to really promiscuously share and wants to hear about everything that their friends are listening to , '' Pandora CTO Tom Conrad told a small audience at a technology conference recently . However , they make up a minority , he said . `` There is a really large percentage of the Pandora audience that actually are n't interested at all in what their friends are listening to , '' Conrad said . `` They do n't want to spam their entire social network with things they 're discovering . ''
Pandora does not plan to support Facebook Music and its auto-publish features . Facebook will launch more `` frictionless sharing '' features on Wednesday , a source says . The company is also working with the music labels'record companies to create an online radio station that would be available for free download from Pandora.