Comments on: Why “RSS to Facebook” is bad for you

By: @louisvillelab

@louisvillelab — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 04:56:59 +0000

Thanks Timo. I agree with you about not including the rss feeds.____My question for djexo would be why. Why would you want to have your full blog post showing up in your facebook page/ tab? Sometimes we want the latest and greatest and waste precious time. Do your customers want this or is this something you want? Maybe look back on your strategy and analyze the why's. You might uncover some unmet needs of your users and realize that leaving your blog on your site is fine just the way it is. Look into pulling your customers to your website with useful information and get them on your site where a "buy now" decesion can be made versus having them stay on facebook.

By: djexothermic

djexothermic — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:34:50 +0000

There is still no good option available aside from posting manually. I just tried numerous Facebook applications, and most of them don't even work. NetworkedBlogs, and a few other apps, work fairly well but everyone of them tries to stick a intermediate step between the Facebook page and the wall post. The simplest option is not available: all I want is for a new blog post to be posted on the Facebook page wall just like if I posted a link. NetworkedBlogs and some others will display the blog post inside a frame with additional garbage, and include unnecessary and distracting links on the wall post.

By: Adnan

Adnan — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:40:23 +0000

I had same experience, but found a solution: RSS – > Feedburner -> Twitter -> Facebook. Same as you posted it manually

By: Timoluege

Timoluege — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:12:59 +0000

Good suggestion, thanks. Does NetworkedBlogs work for any kind of RSS feed? I suppose so. It never occurred to me to use it for non-blog sites but I suppose it should work.

By: Adam Gorley

Adam Gorley — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:40:46 +0000

How about NetworkedBlogs? It will post all of your blog posts to your blog's Facebook page, and they look like mini versions of the blog itself.

By: Timoluege

Timoluege — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:26:01 +0000

Thanks Vedran. But, unless I'm missing something, this actually wouldn't help.

From what I understand it would link the posterous page directly to Facebook on the one hand and to the original post on the other hand. While that is better than the terribly ugly Notes page, it's worse than adding the posts manually. Because the user would then have to go Farcebook -> Posterous -> ifrc.org. But at the end of the day I want people to go from Facebook to our site directly and not via an additional step.