You’ve heard the rumors, no doubt. First Picnik and now GFC. That’s right, Google Friend Connect (or more commonly GFC) is going away at the beginning of March. GFC is Google’s tool that supposedly makes it easy for users to join (or “follow”) your site and interact with other users.
If you’re like me, you said GF WHAT?! You know, this thing:
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Frankly, I enjoy seeing the numbers go up (I don’t think they have ever gone down, actually), but I don’t see what GFC does that is so special. Mostly, I am worried about losing subscriptions I have through GFC when it goes away. I have heard this only applies to non-blogger (a.k.a. WordPress blogs). Then, I realized that most blogs I keep up to date on, I follow in multiple ways so maybe it won’t be so bad. And, if you are using Blogger already, supposedly your GFC subscriptions will stay in your Google Reader.
Bottom line for me and you? There are multiple ways to follow along and while I will be phasing out my GFC tool, you can find me in these other ways (all located on the left sidebar!):
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| Twitter |
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| More lovelies. |
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Oh good- I never liked that Feed Reader/Direct Email option, but I didn’t realize you could choose the reader that way. Adding that! Thanks!
Another blog I follow said GFC is not going away for Bloggers who use Blogger. I don’t know what is true or not. Figured I’d find out if it vanishes off my site next week. Either way, you can still put any blog into your google reader.
Exactly! That is what I have been doing too!
I did hear it will not go away in March for Bloggers, but they are planning to phase it out by the end of the year completely. Guess we will all find out shortly!
great post girl! I can’t believe how hush-hush it’s been — shame on google! I mean, blogger! =D
Good to know!