Failed experiment – now removing Facebook links feed

Several developments in this short-lived trial.

The most serious is that the feed produces hotlinked photos. If read in a feedreader, that’d be fine, but even with my minuscule readership, this is not acceptable practice for a blogger. I could use CSS to keep the images from displaying (and have done so with the links already imported), but this is not the only issue.

I anticipated a feedback loop on FB, and already it’s annoying even me. I stopped sending Twitter posts to FB because I couldn’t quickly find the way that my blog posts were being passed to Twitter (and was busy and didn’t have time to investigate twitterfeed or whatever it is), and so my FB links were getting triple posted, not just double. I know what I’d say if someone did that in my newsfeed!

Secondly, I got a nice comment from the Brit whose blog post prompted my using the feed in the first place. He also notes that the feed is “reasonably bad,” (which is my new catch phrase!) and hints that he has a better solution in the works. He suggests following @fluidcreativity to stay informed on the matter, which I’m going to do. If he can made a good way to linkup FB and WP, I know a lot of folks who would be interested in using it.

So anyway, back to the way things were, at least until a better method of integration is found.