However, integrating a blog with Facebook, especially when you put your profile out there as well, is far from without risk. In fact, for many bloggers Facebook may be more trouble than it’s worth.
This isn’t to say that Facebook is bad, but before you start putting up Facebook buttons all over your site, creating your fan page and/or linking to your profile, you need to understand that it does have some negative impacts too.
However, you already have an email address, accept comments on your site and you may use Twitter or instant messaging as well. If you add on Facebook, however, expect to have yet another inbox and yet another distraction.
For many, Facebook is the primary means of contacting other people. Facebook messages, despite their limitations when compared to email, are their go-to way to reach out to new individuals. Though you can integrate Facebook messages into your regular email workflow by having Facebook send you emails when you get a new message, you still have to answer them on the Facebook site and make sure that you coordinate what’s going on in your two inboxes.
Depending on the volume of mail you get, this can be a lot of work and it often leads to messages getting lost or forgotten.
Also, Anything you do with Facebook you neither own nor control. Facebook does. With their notoriously shifting policies and tendency to change their site and their structure with little warning, building a presence on Facebook can feel like building a house on quicksand.
Based on its history, Facebook is far from being a solid, reliable partner and you need to realize what is available to you today may not be there tomorrow.
Shared by: Pikku LC`Last Share: Sep 2010
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