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

[mlady_rebecca]

I won't guarantee I understand this fully, even after the clarification. But I don't really like the idea of tying together disparate social networking sites.

[mlady_rebecca]

I don't think most social networking sites have the same purpose or the same audience. (All the LJ clones, aside.) People usually favor one over another for a reason.

Facebook also tends to use "real name" identities, and I find most of my friends on LJ tend to keep real life and LJ (mostly fandom) separate.

[azurelunatic]

LJ, technically, should evidently be considered social media, because its main focus is on putting out or consuming media tied to an identity (journal entries, friends list aggregator, commenting), but with the ability to perform social networking features such as adding affiliations (friends) and setting trust levels. The main visitor-facing portion of the site is the journal itself, and the friends list.

Facebook and MySpace are more social networking platforms, more about defining and displaying and categorizing relationships and building new ones, and incidentally about the communication that happens to create and support these relationships. Facebook seems to have taken a very good lesson from LJ in their news feeds, the equivalent of the friends page, but the main focus of the site is still on the profile and the links between people.

synecdochic helpfully defined the distinction for me at one point, and it's informed a lot of the things I've done since

[mlady_rebecca]

I don't know that I've heard the term "social media", I guess I thought "social networking" was more of an umbrella term. But I certainly see how LJ differs from sites like Facebook and Myspace. I'm not on Facebook, and I'm only on Myspace to be able to see updates from a couple of bands I like. I want to get to know people in depth, not hook up with someone based on their vital stats.

Hmmm, the only people I know on LJ who use their real name are authors, who want to be found and read widely. Most of my friends I only know by their usernames and perhaps their first name.

[azurelunatic]

YouTube is another social media site, because it's focused on the content more than the people you know, though networking on that is also pasted(e) on (yay

[azurelunatic]

Social media != social networking.