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“Friend Connect allows webmasters to add social features to their sites by embedding a few snippets of code. We’re retiring the service for all non-Blogger sites on March 1, 2012. We encourage affected sites to create a Google+ page and place a Google+ badge on their site so they can bring their community of followers to Google+ and use new features like Circles and Hangouts to keep in touch.”
This is bad news for WordPress bloggers. Google+ pages are not blogger friendly. In case you forget to update your Google+ page, there are no ways to auto-post your blog posts. Also, no WordPress plugins exist for Google+ pages yet. We’re left with another horrible social networking service that is against bloggers.
Facebook isn’t any better. Their new “Insights” page is a joke. My Facebook posts are being shown to a tiny fraction of my fans! How’s that for an insight?
Good luck creating your Google+ page; they certainly don’t make it easy. I can’t figure it out.
I love WordPress so much more than Blogger. But now I feel terrible, because I’m going to lose 800 people that read updates from my site because they follow me through GFC. Excuse me, Google, for choosing a blogging platform that allows me to be more creative!
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