Not completely happy with the automatic feed of this blog to my Facebook account, so I am discontinuing it for now. Among other reasons:

• A link I added in a blog post that worked fine on the blog, did not work on the version automatically created for Facebook. It seemed to add a folder in the path that should not have been there. Not sure whether that was RapidWeaver’s fault or Facebook’s but, again, the link was okay on the blog itself. RapidWeaver, by the way, is what I use to build and maintain my site, and it’s a great solution if you are Mac-based.
• Once Facebook’s version of the blog entry posts, it is not possible to edit. As I am maintaining the blog internally, I can easily do that on the blog itself, but it doesn’t update on the Facebook version. I finally ended up making a redirect page in a folder with the same name as the bad link to get the Facebook version’s of the link to work, but that is not a very satisfying solution.
• The blog itself was showing up as a Note on Facebook without any of the sidebar links people would see if they went to the blog. I don’t fault Facebook on this, and although having it this way might make it easier for someone on Facebook to find the entries, I’m not sure yet if this is for the best overall.
• The Facebook’s version of blog entries are not displaying well on Facebook’s iPhone app! One of their toolbars hovers on top of the content, which would seem to be an issue with Facebook, not RapidWeaver. Also, an image was half-hanging outside the frame of the app with no way to resize it down to see the whole image. As more and more people are now accessing content through so-called smart phones, this is the final deal killer.

For now, I will go back to adding links on Facebook posts manually, although maybe not for all posts. Not this one, for instance.

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