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I couldn't agree more with this article (though I sadly can't say 'no' to Facebook development). I recently did a tiny amount of Facebook integration into a sit
by Gobiner 16y ago
I couldn't agree more with this article (though I sadly can't say 'no' to Facebook development). I recently did a tiny amount of Facebook integration into a site and it was horrific.
All I wanted to do was add a `Like` button that would broadcast to the clicker's friends timeline. What could be simpler? Just copy and paste their code onto your page and you're done. Right?
The second sentence on their documentation page says "when the user clicks the Like button on your site, a story appears in the user's friends' News Feed with a link back to your website."
But it turns out that's not true. It turns out you have to jump through all kinds of hoops to get that behavior. The documentation for their simplest and most used integration feature couldn't go one paragraph without falsehood.
- bemmu 16y agoSo when you like something, it doesn't actually appear in friends' newsfeeds? Elaborations please.
- far33d 16y agoIt does - I think the OP is referring to all the open graph data you need to add to your page to have this functionality work properly.
- Gobiner 16y agoYup, the whole point of putting a `Like` button your page is so that site visitors can broadcast your page to their friends. However, to cause that broadcast to actually occur you have to put a bunch of Open Graph meta tags on your page and also (I think?) have a registered Facebook Application to go along with your site. There's no place that's documented except for the developer forums.
- steve19 16y ago> also (I think?) have a registered Facebook Application to go along with your site. Can you please elaborate on this? I thought it was just the meta tags that were needed?
- kingnothing 16y agoFor what it's worth, it's only five lines of meta tags that are well documented.