Please implement Facebook Connect

[ywong]

Title
Please implement Facebook Connect

Short, concise description of the idea
Could you please implement Facebook Connect for people to comment?

Full description of the ideaI know you guys (though maybe it was largely driven by Brad Fitzpatrick) are all in love with OpenID, but that's just not getting much traction or users. I'm not suggesting

Comments

[azurelunatic]

While I think you may have underestimated OpenID's usefulness, Facebook Connect would be useful for people who use Facebook and want to connect it to their journal. It would be useless for people who don't use it, and that might cause annoyance. It would be actively unhelpful for people who do not want to accidentally connect their journal with their facebook (for example, if they don't want to connect their subculture-specific journal to their legal name).

[mayerman]

+1, I'm not sure I would want some of my Facebook friends to even know I have an LJ.

[azurelunatic]

The cat is pretty much out of the bag as far as my family is concerned, but the high school party girl who has grown up to be a late-20s party girl who parties really does not need to connect my public content to me.

[7rin]

+ another.

[snakeling]

-1

One of the benefits of OpenID is that it is not linked to any site. If Facebook users want to use a specifically Facebooky application to interact with LJ, surely the onus should fall on Facebook engineers to implement it.

that's just not getting much traction or users
OpenID is implemented by the likes of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Myspace. Hardly what I would call small players :)

Even if you don't see a lot of OpenID use (and if you spend a lot of time on Facebook, you hardly could), it doesn't mean that it is not widely used on other parts of the internet.

[foxfirefey]

OpenID is implemented by the likes of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Myspace. Hardly what I would call small players :)

I'll note here that everybody--all the people you list--are jockeying being a provider instead of an acceptor of OpenIDs. Which is most unfortunate, and does decrease the usefulness of OpenID.

[intrepia]

I have no idea what Facebook Connect is, but I put my LJ URL as my website on Facebook. Is this something different?

[pauamma]

I have no opinion either way about that Facebook thing (I have no idea what you're talking about), but I definitely don't want it to *replace* OpenID support on LJ.

[ywong]

I'm not sure if it is clear what my suggestion entails exactly, and it even seems that a lot of objections in this thread are predicated on misinformation on what it would mean to implement FB Connect

[azurelunatic]

Thank you for the clarification!

[intrepia]

Thank you for the additional information. I guess my concern is that a lot of sites seem to want to be the providers for this type of service, but that sort of defeats the purposes of interoperability in the first place. If LJ adds support for Facebook Connect now, what will be the arguments against integrating similar services from MySpace or Google or Yahoo or Microsoft or whoever else in the future? I think that's the argument for something like OpenID - a single unified platform, rather than there eventually being 18 different ways to log into every social networking site, using one's identity at every other social networking site.

[snakeling]

Thanks for the explanations. I've had a FB for two years, and I still don't get the point of it :D

I'm suggesting that LJ implement FB Connect to allow people to log in using their FB identity to comment.
I get what you're saying, and what you're asking for, but why didn't FB implement FB Connect as compatible with OpenID? I mean, okay, say that LJ implements FB Connect. What's not to say that websites X or Y aren't going to come up with their own version of FB Connect, obliging LJ to implement those as well? It rather takes away from the benefits of OpenID of being universal.