Facebook integration, an evil worth fighting for

Any web developer would cringe when you ask them if you could integrate Facebook with their website. Twitter? Absolutely, that one is much more customizable. But Facebook? Everyone and their mother has a Facebook account. I realized the truth to that statement when my mother, my grandmother, my aunts and uncles all added me as a friend on Facebook. I long for the days when it was reserved for college students, when my parents couldn’t follow my every move, when high school students couldn’t have accounts — but for web developers, it’s actually a good thing. Since so many people already have a Facebook account, why shouldn’t we integrate Facebook logins to our websites so people can quickly and easily have access to our features like commenting? Well, that’s what we’ve been working on. Facebook development is difficult but very rewarding. The ease of use your readers have with that integration alone will make them more willing to come back. We’ve been working with other developers to improve upon the Facebook integration technologies available. We’ve tried every plugin out there and realized that there’s no easy solution, but we’ve put in the groundwork and the research to make it the [...]