Facebook comments

It's recently become possible to add Facebook comments boxes onto external websites using Facebook Connect. I've yet to decide whether I think this is a good thing - on the plus side it means that (in theory) any comments are fed back into the Facebook system raising awareness of the page, site, comments etc. On the, er... minus side? Maybe I should have used positive and negative! (Yes I know I could have easily gone back and edited that bit, but I'm going for 'as live' blogging tonight!) Anyway, on the bad side (that'll do!) it means Facebook is sneaking itself into other websites which is possibly not a good thing.

The point of this waffle is that, in the name of research, I've decided to give it a little trial on the dayve.co.uk website by putting a Facebook comments box onto the Download of the Week page at www.dayve.co.uk/downloadoftheweek.shtml. It might stay, it might not. It might work, or maybe not! I believe you don't need to be a Facebook user to leave comments and hopefully it has security in place (I suspect with the use of a Captcha) to avoid the numerous spammy porn comments which the message boards ended up full of a while back.

Like I say, we'll see. But in the meantime, if you fancy leaving a comment, ideally about the various songs of the week, then please do :-)