Facebook badges

Just discovered that Facebook only lets you have one version of your profile badge.

Facebook Widgets

Since I run a static site in addition to this blog (and a number of other things), found that when I edited the badge within Facebook to go from a vertical aspect ratio, which works well in the column here, to horizontal for my contact page, there was no new source code to be seen. And, the badge here on the blog got really ugly.

So, you can have only one version of a Facebook profile badge no matter how many places you want to put it.

I suspect that a high percentage of Facebook users have no other web presence (i.e. a blog or static site) so this isn’t considered an issue.

For Facebook folks — this originated as a post on my blog which is imported into Facebook via its RSS feed. You are more than welcome to post your comments there. I don’t display Facebook comments on my blog, feel it is a privacy issue.

About Kathy

Perl, MySQL, CGI scripting, web design, graphics following careers as an analytical chemist and educator, then in IT as a database administrator (DBA), programmer, and server administrator. Diagnosed with Mitochondrial Myopathy in 1997.
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1 Response to Facebook badges

  1. Kathy says:

    This post has generated hundreds of attempts at comment spam. Fortunately Akismet has caught them all. Not sure exactly what has caused this, but of all the posts I have imported to Facebook via this site’s RSS feed, this one had a link back to my blog. Just hope that links in my posts are not having similar effects on other sites or that there is a vulnerability in the FB badge setup.

    The objects of the spam seem to be online sales of prescription drugs (including many for erectile dysfunction), online gambling, and bogus insurance (health, auto, life). Guess those are the latest vices.

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