Blizzard made this announcement yesterday:

IRVINE, Calif. – May 5, 2010 – Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that its Battle.net® gaming service will integrate with Facebook®, linking the world's premier online gaming platform with the world's most popular social platform. The first step in the integration will enable StarCraft® II: Wings of Liberty™ players to quickly add Blizzard gamers who are friends on Facebook to their Battle.net friend lists, facilitating their social gaming experience on the service.

"We're pleased to be working with Facebook to integrate their platform with Battle.net to enhance the social-entertainment experience for our players," said Paul Sams, chief operating officer of Blizzard Entertainment. "This new functionality will make it easier than ever to connect with friends on Battle.net and play StarCraft II and future Blizzard Entertainment games together."

The new Facebook functionality in Battle.net will be tested in the near future via the ongoing StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty beta test and will be available to all StarCraft II players when the game ships later this year. Information about other Facebook-related features on Battle.net will be announced at a later date.

I see this being a good idea and a bad idea. Firstly, I have enough spam with Farmville and whateverville is out there. Secondly, I get enough crap from my friends and family about what games I'm currently playing and that I play them too much. Well, you know that it will post to your wall that you are playing WoW, Starcraft, etc.

I see it being a good idea on the other hand though, because people that you may not have thought are Starcraft/WoW players ... Really are hardcore fans. It'll be easier to find a game with friends and family. The downside to that is I don't involve my facebook friends with gaming... Only my twitter friends are my gaming friends.

We'll see. I'll definitely at least give it a try.

What do you guys think? Will you try it?