Facebook to make it harder for bloggers
Facebook has decided if you want to link to your blog you have to do it manually
One of the great things about Facebook until today is that it was accessible to other information in other formats from all of your other sites. You could post on your blog, and it would automatically appear as your FB status update.
No longer.
We have been setting-up blogs and web sites for quite sometime now so that they automatically post material from your blog feed to Facebook and Twitter, and sometimes link your Twitter feed to Facebook as well, and vice-versa.
I'm not sure how much of this Facebook intends to make more difficult, but from now on you won't be able to automatically import your blog post into Facebook as your status update.
As a blogger this is a particular disappointment to me as I often get more discussion on Facebook than I do on the blog, although the blog has more authority than my Facebook site. I saw it as a win-win. For some reason that is unexplained, Facebook didn't agree, and what's more, if they disagree, then it is their way or the Internet superhighway.
Now I am going to actually have to spend precious time reposting material to Facebook. And not just for me, but for On Line Opinion, the major national eJournal which we publish for The National Forum. OLO has its own Facebook page which is populated every day when I post the 6 or more articles that we publish at around 7:00 in the morning.
Depending on why they have done this they'll either back down because there will be a huge backlash, or they'll proceed, because the real backlash is from those people on Facebook who are tired of their FB friends updating their status using their blog posts.
Me, I'm going to go over the Google+ and check out what it offers. Surely Google would have a better idea of how the Internet works, and would be less arrogant.
