Questions and Answers from Facebook
Notes: Bugs and Known Problems
Please place your blog into this validator and resolve any existing is...
Please place your blog into this validator and resolve any existing issues with your blog provider.
If you are experiencing problems with formatting or images not transferring to your notes, please check the RSS feed you are importing to determine whether it is displaying your blog correctly. The Notes application will only import what is displayed on the RSS feed.
If you’re still experiencing problems, please submit a report here.
If you are experiencing problems with formatting or images not transferring to your notes, please check the RSS feed you are importing to determine whether it is displaying your blog correctly. The Notes application will only import what is displayed on the RSS feed.
If you’re still experiencing problems, please submit a report here.
If you are seeing duplicates of your original blog posts in your Notes...
If you are seeing duplicates of your original blog posts in your Notes application, and you only imported the blog once, please submit a report here.
Some RSS feeds only provide the most recent blog posts. If your feed i...
Some RSS feeds only provide the most recent blog posts. If your feed is only giving recent info, Facebook will not be able to import the old posts. Facebook does not scrape text from external pages; it has to be fed in. As an alternative, you can copy and paste the text into a new note.
Facebook is probably not able to import your blog because of a privacy...
Facebook is probably not able to import your blog because of a privacy setting on your account. Blogs written from sources with restricted viewing will not export to Facebook. If you would like to import your blog, you will need to change this privacy setting to something less restrictive.
Notes: Importing and exporting notes
Facebook allows you to quickly and easily import an external blog from...
Facebook allows you to quickly and easily import an external blog from another website.
- On the Notes page, click the Import a blog link on the right side of the page.
- Enter the URL (web address) of your blog into the text box, and check the box underneath that states that you agree to our Terms of Use.
- To complete the process, click on "Save Settings." Once you do this, your previous posts will appear as notes and any new posts you make will automatically display.
If you are importing a blog into Facebook, edits or additions to your ...
Facebook Connect
Facebook Connect
You do all sorts of interesting things on the internet. Many of these interesting things happen within Facebook, which is why we created News Feed—to let your friends know what you're up to on the site.
But what about interesting things that you do on other sites? Maybe you commented on a blog or dugg an article on Digg. Maybe you put up something for auction on eBay, or found a video you love and wanted to share it. Wouldn’t it be nice if when you were on another site, you could easily find your friends on that site and see what they are doing there, just like you can on Facebook?
This is why we've created "Facebook Connect." When you visit sites that support Facebook Connect, you can choose to "Connect" your Facebook account to those sites. By connecting your Facebook account to a website, you will share some of your profile information with that site (so there’s no need to create another profile!), find and interact with your friends on that site, and be able to publish stories about actions you took on that site into your Wall, and potentially into the News Feeds of your friends.
Facebook Connect works a lot like authorizing an application on Facebook. You have complete control over your information, who sees it, and what information is published back into your Wall on Facebook. You can always choose when a story gets published to your Wall, and if you do not want a Facebook Connect site to publish a story for you, it's easy to opt-out at any time. Sites do not have access to your information unless you or one of your friends explicitly "connect" to that site, and your privacy settings are always obeyed.
But what about interesting things that you do on other sites? Maybe you commented on a blog or dugg an article on Digg. Maybe you put up something for auction on eBay, or found a video you love and wanted to share it. Wouldn’t it be nice if when you were on another site, you could easily find your friends on that site and see what they are doing there, just like you can on Facebook?
This is why we've created "Facebook Connect." When you visit sites that support Facebook Connect, you can choose to "Connect" your Facebook account to those sites. By connecting your Facebook account to a website, you will share some of your profile information with that site (so there’s no need to create another profile!), find and interact with your friends on that site, and be able to publish stories about actions you took on that site into your Wall, and potentially into the News Feeds of your friends.
Facebook Connect works a lot like authorizing an application on Facebook. You have complete control over your information, who sees it, and what information is published back into your Wall on Facebook. You can always choose when a story gets published to your Wall, and if you do not want a Facebook Connect site to publish a story for you, it's easy to opt-out at any time. Sites do not have access to your information unless you or one of your friends explicitly "connect" to that site, and your privacy settings are always obeyed.
Facebook Connect is available in 64 languages and locales. You can fin...
Facebook Connect is available in 64 languages and locales. You can find more information in our Developer Blog post here.
Platform and Developer Support: Other questions
You can keep up with what's happening on Facebook Platform in a number...
You can keep up with what's happening on Facebook Platform in a number of places. You can read the Developer blog (or subscribe to the RSS feed), the Platform Status Feed (or subscribe to its RSS feed), and the weekly Push Changes articles for announcements, changes, and other important bulletins. Also, the Facebook Platform profile also provides updates.
Platform and Developer Support: Connect FAQs
Facebook Connect is available in 64 languages and locales. You can fin...
Facebook Connect is available in 64 languages and locales. You can find more information in our Developer Blog post here.
Platform and Developer Support: Authorizing users
Automatic authentication is a very lightweight authentication model th...
Automatic authentication is a very lightweight authentication model that replaced the concept of "adding" Platform applications. It was announced on the developers blog.
Automatic authentication means that if a user visits an application canvas page (whether it's an FBML- or iframe-based canvas page), Facebook will pass that visitor's user ID to the application, even if the user has not authorized the application. The UID also gets passed when a user interacts with another user's application tab.
The user ID is passed along to canvas pages as the fb_sig_canvas_user parameter. You can access it from the new version of the PHP client using: $fb->get_canvas_user();
More information is available here: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Automatic_Authentication
Automatic authentication means that if a user visits an application canvas page (whether it's an FBML- or iframe-based canvas page), Facebook will pass that visitor's user ID to the application, even if the user has not authorized the application. The UID also gets passed when a user interacts with another user's application tab.
The user ID is passed along to canvas pages as the fb_sig_canvas_user parameter. You can access it from the new version of the PHP client using: $fb->get_canvas_user();
More information is available here: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Automatic_Authentication
Chat: Bugs and Known Problems
This application is not built or operated by Facebook. If you are seei...
This application is not built or operated by Facebook. If you are seeing a "Facebook Captcha" and being asked to confirm your date of birth, please contact Adium for more information or follow along in their blog.
Platform and Developer Support: Making money
This is just running in a limited and closed test right now. Please co...
This is just running in a limited and closed test right now. Please continue to watch our developer blog for future updates.
Platform and Developer Support: Accessing a user's profile data, friends, and stream
No. Data you collect directly from users (see "Independent Data") "bel...
No. Data you collect directly from users (see "Independent Data") "belongs" to your app and is not subject to Facebook's data storage policy. However, any such data must be typed or uploaded to your app directly by users. If you pull user data from the API, it always remains subject to Facebook’s data policy. The policy does allow for certain exceptions, but those can only be authorized by users through standard Facebook controls (which currently aren't available), or through Facebook's written permission. For more information please see this blog post: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=234
Home page: Publisher
The Publisher lets you share content on Facebook. It is located at the...
The Publisher lets you share content on Facebook. It is located at the top of both your home page and your Profile page. Both locations offer the same functionalities.
Typing in the Publisher text box and clicking "Share" updates your status. Clicking inside the text box displays additional types of content that you can share:
If you type in the Publisher box and then add content (e.g., a link or a video), the text will appear as a comment above the content you have shared. It will not appear as a new status update or replace your current status.
Typing in the Publisher text box and clicking "Share" updates your status. Clicking inside the text box displays additional types of content that you can share:
- Link (add a web address to external content)
- Photos (upload a photo, create an album, or take a webcam photo)
- Video (upload a video or record a webcam video)
- Note (add from Facebook’s Notes application)
- Import (add external blogs or RSS feeds)
- Gifts (add from Facebook’s Gift Shop)
If you type in the Publisher box and then add content (e.g., a link or a video), the text will appear as a comment above the content you have shared. It will not appear as a new status update or replace your current status.
Questions and Answers from Users
