[Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon

[David Gerard]

2011/2/7 Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby at gmail.com>:

> It will be better ideologically, and it will also be pointless, as no-one
> outside the geek squad (that's us & co) know what it is or use it. The goal
> of Twitter & Facebook sharing would be to advertise the content to the
> public, and the effect would be extremely limited if we would only allow
> identi.ca sharing. Like it or not, if we want to "advertise" the projects in
> such a way, allowing Facebook and Twitter (as well as identi.ca of course)
> is really the only sensible thing to do.


I can just see every single networking service on Earth being listed,
for neutrality ... a bit like the Special:BookSources page that comes
up when you click on an ISBN.

This sort of thing would best be implemented as a gadget, which users
can then choose to switch on with their chosen selection of places to
post to.

We would need to make sure there were no privacy issues. Users can of
course choose to reveal anything they like to Facebook - but is there
anything we would need to take care not to reveal inadvertently? Is
there a way not to accidentally link their WP username to their
Facebook real name, for instance?


- d.