How To Integrate Facebook With WordPress « Smashing Magazine

Facebook is one of those Web phenomena that impress everyone with numbers. To cite some: about 250 million users are on Facebook, and together they spend more than 5 billion minutes on Facebook… every day. These numbers suggest that we should start thinking about how to use Facebook for blogging or vice versa.

We did some research to find out how the integration of Facebook with WordPress and vice versa works, or — in other words — how you can present your WordPress blog on Facebook or use the functionality of Facebook on your WordPress-powered blog. Both of these can be achieved with a set of WordPress plug-ins, a couple of which we’ll present here in detail.

Connect your Blog to your facebook and show your blogs on your wall.
This article show how, in detail you get explained how to use facebook connect and the facebook API

Facebook Quitters: Find Out When Someone De-Friends You (via feedly)


 

The act of de-friending someone on Facebook may have just become a bit more socially awkward. There’s now a Greasemonkey add-on (available here) that will check your network at scheduled intervals to see if anyone has removed you and alert you when it happens.

As Inside Facebook points out, Facebook doesn’t offer this type of functionality natively. Thus, without the script (or something similar), you’d have to manually check your network for deserters, which would be insanely tedious, especially if you have hundreds of friends.

In other words, what was once fairly easy to get away with (de-friending someone) could become a confrontation if your ex-friend happens to have this script, called Facebook Friends Checker, installed.

Here in the Netherlands it's quite popular to de-friending someone @Hyves. Why because several accounts having so much friends, strangers, spammer and maybe stalker ;)

I removed yesterday 50% of my "friends" from my StumbleUpon account, most removed accounts are inactive for more than 12 month. This is not called de-friending, but "clean-up". On social webbsites we need friends related to our online indentity (or content). I go for the quality and not for the quantity