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Facebook, Please Fix Your Comment Moderation Issues

Fri, 03/23/2012 - 10:51am — senh

I’ve switched over to Facebook’s comment system a while back. I did it for two reasons. First, offloading comments to a third party takes the load off my server. Second, I’m hoping to get some Facebook traffic juice.

The first part worked out. I disabled Drupal’s commenting system, which resulted in less cron jobs and queries to the database.

The second part hasn’t quite worked out. My Facebook referrals have mostly stayed the same. I’m also noticing less comments, which is a surprise. I figured since most people are on Facebook already, I would get more.

Integrating Facebook's Like Button & Like Box

Tue, 10/05/2010 - 10:51am — senh

I've integrated Facebook's Like Button and Like Box to Wopular's homepage and subpages. I don't think they're effective traffic drivers, but did it just to cover my bases; I think, in general, that's true for most small to medium sized sites. They're pretty easy to integrate.

Sites in Like, Not Love, With Facebook Link

Facebook's "Like" button is popping up on e-commerce sites, but these Web companies are giving access to some of their users' data to the social-networking giant.

Senh: This article does mention some stats on referral traffic from Facebook for sites using their social plugins, even though most of them are in the "we don't have enough info yet" variety.

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Yahoo makes a social leap

Company's answer to Facebook-style sharing will link it's e-mail users through address books.

Facebook to simplify privacy settings Wednesday

One day after Facebook's CEO admitted that the company had made mistakes with users' privacy, the social networking site confirmed it will roll out new, simplified privacy controls on Wednesday.

Facebook CEO Says New Privacy Controls Coming

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social network is planning new privacy controls that are simpler to use and will allow users to turn off all third-party services.

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Facebook tries to save face

Facebook's latest modifications make it pretty clear that the company is eager to spread its brand even further across the Web -- and that's left some privacy advocates a little freaked out as they look at the vast amount of personal information that Facebook has on hand.

Facebook’s Social Plugins Now on 100,000+ Sites

Despite ongoing questions about privacy, Facebook’s new social plugins continue to expand their footprint across the web, with the company announcing on Tuesday that more than 100,000 websites have now deployed them.

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