Facebook "Like" Button no longer posting to wall since about 2 days ago
I have built several websites, and for some reason none of them will post to my wall anymore when I "like" a blog post, or like the site in general. (Using Iframe) Example:
http://www.reyniersaudio.com/blog/
The funny thing is, I had a friend try it, and it posted to his wall fine. Though, this person did not have timeline enabled, and I do.
Anyone have any ideas?
It appears the "like" appears in my "activity log". By default, the "like" is set to be "allowed on timeline". I am able to change this to "hidden from timeline". This setting implies to me that it should be showing up on the timeline.. yet it is not. Also, I can change the setting to "featured on timeline", but once again, this does not work.
Answer
It seems that the way the Like button works has changed (or not really!). I tried liking one of your blog posts and my own website and nothing appeared on the timeline. But reading the Like button introduction:
The Like button lets a user share your content with friends on Facebook. When the user clicks the Like button on your site, a story appears in the user's friends' News Feed with a link back to your website.
And indeed, it appeared on my friend's news feed and ticker!
I suppose we cannot consider the timeline as the new news feed. Because it's not!
AND it seems that there are two ways a liked URL is going to appear on the user timeline which are
1) when the user has something to say, i.e when the user writes something along with the like:
2) if you click on the More Recent Activity block. And allow this activity to appear on your timeline.
Now maybe there are other cases (that I'm not aware of!) for a liked URL to appear in the user's timeline directly (maybe with custom Open Graph objects or a custom Facebook script that would decide for you?).