Put in a simple Facebook LIKE button for Facebook PROFILES….

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    stevetabler · Member ·

    I just want a simple Facebook Like-button for my FREE WordPress.com page. I don’t have a Facebook PAGE. I have a Facebook PROFILE (though I don’t know what the difference is, since Facebook states they don’t allow companies to have pages). If I was connected to some company, I probably wouldn’t be blogging about my projects anyway, and instead would be adding all the energy I’m wasting on blogging to working on my projects.

    I don’t want to turn my BLOG on WordPress.com into a “feed” to anyone’s Facebook page: I want only that when someone clicks on a Facebook Like button in my blog, that they jet a little entry in their Facebook LIKES section….nothing else. Why can’t you guys just do something simple?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    There is something like this and it’s called the Facebook badge. Badges make it easy for you to show off your Facebook profile, as well as your latest status updates, on your WordPress.com blog.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/facebook-integration/facebook-badge/

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    stevetabler · Member ·

    Thank you for responding so quickly. I have the Facebook badge already. It was an easy way to put my picture on my WordPress blog, and have it link to my Facebook.

    I don’t care for Facebook. I don’t care for LinkedIn either. Perhaps my entire approach for things are completely backwards, and that is why I have been unemployed since 2006. Being unemployed, my resources are stretched to the breaking point, otherwise, I would simply host my blog at a paid site.

    My Facebook page was finally setup last winter as all the employment seminars I went to said that it was a good way to help find work. Just be careful what you put on it so that it doesn’t have a negative impact. So, my facebook page is limited to content that is on my resume.

    Now I’ve gone another step and created a blog as a way to showcase my personal programming projects that I am working on when I’m not otherwise engaged in my job-search. So, it only stands to reason that I want a Like button on my WordPress blog so that it can be added to individual Facebook pages.

    I’ve just been told by my roommate that I’ve basically wasted my time creating a blog at a site nobody’s heard of (WordPress.com) when what I should have been doing is “blogging” on my Facebook page. I didn’t think that the Facebook format was organized in a way that is conducive to the writing I want to do.

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    timethief · Member ·

    I disagree with your roommate. Facebook is a place akin to a restaurant where you waste time and post status updates. Blogs are for publication of meaty articles that we can post a link back to on Facebook.

    WordPress.com is hardly a site that no one is ever heard of (I’m LOL) so I assume your roommate has very little internet experience. There’s a great article in Forbes that covers some of the early days of WordPress through Automattic as a business today. I recommend checking it out.
    With 60 Million Websites, WordPress Rules The Web. So Where’s The Money?
    http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2012/09/05/the-internets-mother-tongue/

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