One of the things that makes me more prone to update Facebook rather than my blog is the ease that Facebook’s user interface provides for quickly adding a link and a comment to that link. I click on the “link” box and my browser automatically loads an excerpt from the link’s page, including thumbnails from that page. I can add my commentary on the link in a few seconds and publish it to my Facebook wall.

Does anyone know if there is a WordPress plugin that implements link excerpting the way Facebook does? I often see interesting webpages and simply want to quickly share them without hassling with a WordPress editor to do so.

I’ve found plenty of plugins that implement some Facebook-ish functionality but nothing that does this exact thing. Evermore comes closest, but it excerpts one’s own blog posts, rather than something to which one is linking.

Let me know if anyone finds anything.

Update 21 June 2010: WordPress has this built in and I just now found it out. Hurray!