Import Google Reader, Delicious, and Other Services Into Facebook

Thanks to this infor­ma­tion, I have linked a few of my 3rd-party sites and ser­vices to my Face­book account. Reminds me of the 90’s when we used to do Webrings — remem­ber Webrings? Remem­ber Webrings on Geoc­i­ties? Remem­ber the city names? Ha! That’s a mem­ory! I digress. This infor­ma­tion is grand!

From: How Do I Import Google Reader, Deli­cious, and Other Ser­vices Into Face­book? | Stay N’ Alive

With the new Face­book home page design, the vis­i­bil­ity of all my updates is mak­ing other peo­ple aware that I import my

Ser­vices avail­able in Face­book as of this post

Google Reader, Deli­cious, and other activ­ity into Face­book. It is one of my most fre­quent ques­tions asked in the mes­sages I get on Face­book. For this rea­son I thought I’d share how I do it. Believe it or not, no app install is required for this — it’s built right into Facebook.

Ser­vices Available

First of all, the ser­vices you can import into your Face­book wall feed:

• Yelp
• Pho­to­bucket
• Flickr
• Digg
• Picasa
• Deli­cious
• Google Reader
• Youtube
• Stum­ble­upon
• Last.fm
• Pan­dora
• Hulu
• Blog/RSS — you may choose one blog to import (in addi­tion to any note imports)

Start by choos­ing which of those you belong to and use, and which you would like to share with your friends. Now to set it up.

Set Up

Set up is easy.  Click on the “Pro­file” link in the top nav bar.  Then, under the “Write Some­thing” pub­lisher box, on the right, there is a “Set­tings” link. Click on that, and you’ll now see a list of sites you can import.  In the list of sites, just click on the one you want to import, and fol­low the instruc­tions.  Click “import”, and you’re done!  If you ever want to edit or remove your set­tings, just click on any of the ser­vices and you can change any of the set­tings you want.

Import­ing the other sites you fre­quent can be a great, viral way to ini­ti­ate dis­cus­sion amongst your friends and fam­ily.  It can also be a great way to bring more expo­sure to your brand or busi­ness if the arti­cles and links on the sites you share belong to your busi­ness, and oth­ers can always re-share on their pro­files, so it is viral as well.  So there you have it — you too can import these sites into your own pro­file.

Enter­ing account info in Facebook