FYI: To my dear beautiful readers, some news has come my way that I need to share with you. Below is the information I received. My comments are in red...
In 2011, we announced the retirement of Google Friend Connect for all non-Blogger sites. We made an exception for Blogger to give readers an easy way to follow blogs using a variety of accounts. Yet over time, we’ve seen that most people sign into Friend Connect with a Google Account. So, in an effort to streamline, in the next few weeks we’ll be making some changes that will eventually require readers to have a Google Account to sign into Friend Connect and follow blogs. (A Google Account to Sign in)
As part of this plan, starting the week of January 11, we’ll remove the ability for people with Twitter, Yahoo, Orkut or other OpenId providers to sign in to Google Friend Connect and follow blogs. At the same time, we’ll remove non-Google Account profiles so you may see a decrease in your blog follower count.(Sniff sniff)
We encourage you to tell affected readers (perhaps via a blog post), that if they use a non-Google Account to follow your blog, they need to sign up for a Google Account, and re-follow your blog. With a Google Account, they’ll get blogs added to their Reading List, making it easier for them to see the latest posts and activity of the blogs they follow.(So if you need, please be a gittin' yerself a Google Account.)
We know how important followers are to all bloggers, but we believe this change will improve the experience for both you and your readers. (If they say so... guess they know best)
So... yeah... ifin ya wanna continue to catch my blogs, a Google account is required. So if you haven't done so already, I am hoping y'all will get a Google account, then re-follow my blogs, that way, ya won't miss a beat. Thanks...Deb
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