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I personally don't care about having a Facebook account any more than I be buffing up my MySpace account or a WoW character anytime soon. This cartoon sums it u

I personally don't care about having a Facebook account any more than I be buffing up my MySpace account or a WoW character anytime soon. This cartoon sums it up my attitude pretty well: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zp_eKXDTiU0/SiQyLywcJ7I/AAAAAAAAE78/Z1s7mxGYZbc/s400/new+yorker+cartoon+about+facebook.gif http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zp_eKXDTiU0/SiQyLywcJ7I/AAAAAAAAE7... However, I agree that since so many people use Facebook, it's a useful and important place to promote your business and for which to offer services. It used to be that when we released widgets it was important to test on Blogger, Typepad, etc. but these days more potential users are on Facebook than Blogger. Of course, Facebook makes you jump through hoops to integrate anything with their site, but the large potential audience makes it worth it.

unalone 17y ago
Don't bother with widgets unless you know what you're doing. Creating an entire new site feature takes effort, and that's what coding for Facebook is. Farmville did it, those damn quizzes do it, but I haven't seen more than three applications in the last six months. What you do is make a fan page for your product, and put everything you've got there. Fan pages are beautifully integrated and give you a lot of control over your audience. I used a fan page of myself to address young campers at a summer program and they're still talking to one another over it.