Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Bad News!! No More GFC!

My google reader had 0 items for the past couples of days and I was clueless about the bad news until I visited Katherine's blog today and learned that as of March 1, 2012, Google Friend Connect (GFC) will be discontinued for non-Blogger sites.

Here's the excerpt.



Source - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/more-spring-cleaning-out-of-season.html

So how are you taking the news?

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9 comments:

  1. JenniferNovember 29, 2011 at 10:00 PM

    I don't know, part of me is nervous for it because I don't want to lose any readers - but at the same time, I suppose out with the old, in with the new, huh? I was thinking of doing a post asking my GFC readers to subscribe to my RSS feed (I'm not sold on Google+ Circles!). *sigh* I will miss seeing those faces on my sidebar though... :-)

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  2. chocolatecovereddaydreams.blogspot.comNovember 29, 2011 at 10:11 PM

    I had no idea! Does that mean that all of my followers will disappear?

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  3. StephNovember 29, 2011 at 11:06 PM

    crazy huh??? i'm not sure what i will do to keep up with my bloggy pals... trying to review all the suggestions.

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  4. Dr_fomskyNovember 30, 2011 at 8:30 AM

    That's not fair. I'll tell my followers to subscribe to my blog in a reader. It can still be connected to google that way!

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  5. AnonymousNovember 30, 2011 at 8:32 AM

    I find it very frustrating, but I suppose I will adapt lol.

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  6. Stacy TaylorNovember 30, 2011 at 8:35 AM

    Oh no, I was just getting around to setting all that up on my new-ish blog! On the other hand, thank goodness I hadn't already set it up! Thanks for the info.

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  7. Self SagacityDecember 1, 2011 at 3:17 PM

    I am glad I am on Blogger still. I think I would be ok with it being gone, although I wonder what will the advertisers use to gaged a site now?

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  8. Catch My WordsDecember 2, 2011 at 5:06 PM

    Interesting. I never thought of GFC being on non-blogger sites. I guess I never paid attention.

    Joyce
    http://joycelansky.blogspot.com/

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  9. lisa from insignificant at bestDecember 2, 2011 at 6:39 PM

    I'm so upset! I just participated in 2 huge giveaways and went from 139 followers to well over 300. I built it on purpose because I know that's what marketers look at. This stinks!

    Lisa
    P.S. thanks for linking up to the GTKY blog hop! :)

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