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As of August 1st, 2018, SailBlogs can no longer publish to your Facebook personal profile automatically as it had in the past.



The reason for this change is that some third-party applications were able to exploit this feature to harvest data about FB users and their friends (refer to the Cambridge Analytica Scandal), and attempt to encourage other people to install the app. (See this link for some description of the change and why.) Of course, this is not how the SailblogsLink application behaved (we do not collect or store *any* of your facebook profile information), but because SailBlogsLink utilized these same data channels we have lost our ability to post to your personal wall automatically along with all other applications.

For Sailblogs members that post via the main web dashboard through their browsers, we have implemented Facebook's new share dialog box. This option will appear *after* your post has been submitted and saved. Clicking the share button opens the Facebook dialog and asks for confirmation to post the blog entry on your facebook wall. This insures that you, as the owner of your FB profile page, know and approve all information that is being posted to your wall.

This solution is fine for those users posting to their sailblog using the web interface, but for users that post via email - either using satellite email, SSB email (like SailMail) or another service like Global Marine - SailBlogs can no longer automatically repost those blog entries to your Facebook wall. Obviously, when sending in a post via email, you cannot confirm that you're logged into facebook and approve the posting.

If you are going to be using the advanced Post By Email features of SailBlogs, the solution is to create a fan page for your boat at Facebook and post to that instead of your personal profile. Facebook still allows automatic posting to fan and business pages.

There some advantages and disadvantages to using a Fan page instead of a personal profile. A disadvantage is that all your friends and family have to follow your fan page so that they see the updates, so you have to encourage them to find your page and follow it. An advantage is that more than one user can post to a fan page. So if more than one person on the boat has a sailblogs account (i.e. parents and children) multiple sailblogs accounts can send info to a single facebook fan page. This has been a request in the past.

The above video demonstrates how to create a simple fan page for your boat, and how to connect your sailblogs account to that fan page. Please contact support if you have any additional questions about this topic.

just a test to the facebook fan page.

This is a test of the remote processor. If all goes well, this message will appear in my Facebook fan page for the boat very shortly very shortly.