Maybe is a little bit weird as a question but, I have a facebook account and with this account i manage a facebook fan page. Now i wanna hut my personal account down, but is there a way to continue managing my fan page even with my personal account closed account?
That doesn't seem to be possible from the threads I came across that.
Your best bet is making someone else the admin or creating a fake account and making it the admin of the page before shutting down your account.
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We are in the process of creating a new authentication system for all of our company web apps. We are considering allowing users to login via Facebook, Google, Live, etc.
What are your thoughts on safety, privacy and security of allowing Facebook access to our users? People are telling us horror stories of Facebook tracking them even when not logged in to Facebook. Has the world chosen to accept ease of login over privacy protections? Are these fears all myths?
Safety depends very much on the code as you implement it. I prefer to avoid logging in people with Twitter, because it is very easy to create a fake account on Twitter. For now, I am with Facebook and Google, and I've noticed nothing particularly "dangerous" in terms of security.
The odd phenomenon (at least as far as my experience goes) is that, when presented with two options, i.e., the possibility to sign up with a "stardard form" that requires a verification email (long procedure) and the possibility to click a button and login with Google, Yahoo, or Facebook (fast and easy), users prefer providing their information with the form, the good old way. It must be due to rumors about the privacy breach you mention.
I don't think I can dismiss or confirm such myths. The sure thing is that the Google+ button (the +1 button to be more specific), says hi if you visit any site that has it while you're logged in, and greets you by name. Google analytics suggests you change your privacy statement if you decide to track the interests and hobbies of visitors. Facebook has insights too. I don't think that these are all myths.
Privacy also depends on what you do with the data you can collect with Google/Facebook/Live login. I have made it a point not to share, sell, use any of the information gathered - not even emails, not even for newsletters (I don't send newsletters). I do understand that this may be pure idealism, and that it doesn't bring you that far if you have to run a business (not sure!), but so far it's working fine, at least for me, and for my users.
I have the task to integrate some commercial sharing stuff into a website.
The idea is that the user a) logs in/registers in the website, b) the user connects his user account with his facebook account - by adding and accepting the website application.
Here comes the interesting part - is there a way of linking the facebook account with my website's account so that I can send them updates and promotions directly to their walls programatically?
In the application dialog, it's clearly noted that the user allows the application to write to the user wall so they accept and agree this. Then, for example, if I want to send them a promotion or update directly on their wall using the fb application api, how can I achieve this? All the tutorials I've read consider the user using the Facebook Login
The concrete idea is something like weekly promotion feed that my clients want to allow customers to allow being posted directly on their walls. As I don't have any experience with facebook development, I'd appreciate knowing how, if at all possible, this can be achieved?
Most of what you're suggesting is against policy, and isnt' technically possible either as users need to come back to the app once every 60 days for you to have a valid access_token for them.
The Authentication docs explain how to get access to a user's information with their permission, and the Permission documentation explains which permissions grant access to which functions or fields.
From the documentation it seems that the user should always authorize the Facebook application even to access basic permissions.
However, sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Clicker.com auto-authorize the logged facebook user without showing the authorization dialog. If you visit one of those sites for the first time they will be able to access your public data without you authorizing it. If I go to the Apps on my facebook settings, an entry will appear showing that I gave access to those applications (but I DID NOT).
How can this be possible? Is it related to the "Instant Personalization" feature for selected partners?
Thanks
Well, I was doing some research and yes, it's all about Instant Personalization.
From Facebook:
We've partnered with a few websites to provide you with great,
personalized experiences the moment you arrive, such as immediately
playing the music you like or displaying friends' reviews. To tailor
your experience, these partners only access public information (like
your name and profile picture) and other information you've made
public.
From one of its partners:
Clicker.com
So -at the time I'm writing this- unless you're a partner of Facebook, you'll have to show the old OAuth dialog.
Hope it helps!
I've done a little searching and was wondering if there is a way to link a users account in our web app with their social media accounts they choose to link (facebook, twitter, etc). i.e. when they log into our web app they are auto logged into facebook, twitter, etc?
I see facebook has an api to login to our web app using their facebook book account but I want it to work the other way around, I want them logged into facebook when they log into their account via our web app.
Thanks,
Ryan
It is definitely possible-from your question I assume you would like to pull data and make actions on behalf of a user? If so, you will need the offline_access permission as well as all the other permissions you will need (check out the list here to see exactly which ones you require). Then, you can trigger a script on your server that tell facebook as soon as the user is logged in to your site, to log in your application as the user as well.
NOTE: You might be going about this in the wrong way. I would advise that you specify a bit more details on what exactly you need the user to be logged in for, and I can (probably) provide you with a decent answer.
EDIT: In response to your question in the comment, Ryan, here is my answer:
You need to divide this problem into 2 different situations-one: your company wants you to write all the code from scratch and don't use what facebook has to offer, in which case you should create a custom login script that enables your users to use their facebook account as the Actual user account in your web app. This is the best solution in my opinion, and is supported by the ever-so-awesome Jeff Atwood. Here's a link to how to do just this, and a tutorial about this also.
Or your company is comfortable with using Facebook's Social Plugins.
Then you should focus on Like Button & Comments : These social plugins are the best way to enable people to create social experiences if they're already logged in.
I'm starting to work on a site that will be strongly connected to a corresponding Facebook app. I want the contents to be free for all to view, but only registered users will be able to edit it (quite similar to serverfault, actually).
Since I think that most of my users will be logged in to facebook, I would really like to use their facebook credentials as to login to my site - the same way Open-Id registration works here.
Can this be done?
Thanks,
Udi Pasmon
Yes, this is one of the things provided by Facebook Connect. There is a wiki full of documentation - start at "Authenticating Users with Facebook Connect".