Facebook WP Fan

Relequestual | November 28th, 2007 @ 2:53 pm

I would be one of them!

Otto | November 28th, 2007 @ 2:58 pm

There’s also already a page for WordPress Hackers (the mailing list):
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=8220210918

tal galili | November 28th, 2007 @ 3:01 pm

Done.

Jeffro2pt0 | November 28th, 2007 @ 3:10 pm

I think the question is, how many people are savvy enough to use WordPress as their blogging platform without the need of using any of these social networks. Wasn’t it you Matt who said, the best place to find out about a particular person is their blog?

PS | November 28th, 2007 @ 3:44 pm

I wonder how many FB users are savvy enough to also use WordPress?

I think more than if you do that question on MySpace =P

henrik m | November 28th, 2007 @ 4:07 pm

I’m not. Just cancelled my fb-account. I figured i don’t need, the blogosphere does it for me.

Great work, by the way.

miles | November 28th, 2007 @ 5:57 pm

In my experience, almost every wordpress user I’ve met also has a facebook account (including myself). Therefore many FB users = WP users. And it’s worth saying to WP’s credit, you don’t have to be super savvy to use WP, and to me, that’s what makes WP so wonderful.

Richard | November 28th, 2007 @ 5:58 pm

Or how many WordPress users disdain Facebook.

Morydd | November 28th, 2007 @ 6:15 pm

I wonder how many FB users are savvy enough to also use WordPress?

Is the implication that you believe that Facebook users are too dumb to use WordPress, or that WordPress is that much more difficult to use than Facebook?

Cody | November 28th, 2007 @ 6:25 pm

Seems like certain Facebook users misconstrued your “savvy” comment…

Geof F. Morris | November 28th, 2007 @ 9:19 pm

Oh Matt, you didn’t just hate on FB users, did you? ‘Cause see, I’m a part of the set that uses both. [Admittedly, I've used WP longer, since I remember 0.72.]

There are people older than 23 on FB.

Kara M. | November 28th, 2007 @ 9:49 pm

Done and done.

Cody | November 28th, 2007 @ 10:38 pm

To clarify: I think Matt was wondering how many Facebook users know about WordPress, not how many know how to use it.

Morydd | November 29th, 2007 @ 7:59 am

I see that rather than respond to the fact that he insulted a few million potential (and existing) WordPress users, Matt chose to quietly edit the post.

Christian Mohn | November 29th, 2007 @ 8:04 am

When you edit a post after publishing, wouldn’t it be “ethical” to point it out? Especially when not just fixing typos?

I am amused that

“I wonder how many FB users are savvy enough to also use WordPress?”

has now become

“I wonder how many FB users also use WordPress?”

Cyndy | November 29th, 2007 @ 8:33 am

I wouldn’t say I use Facebook, but I have an account there…so now I’m a fan of WordPress, too! (Coincidently enough, you can become a fan of Surpass Hosting, my webhost, on FB, too. There’s even a group to join. Go figure.)

Cyndy | November 29th, 2007 @ 8:35 am

Oh, I just saw: There’s a WordPress group, too!

elissa | November 29th, 2007 @ 12:17 pm

i joined

April | November 29th, 2007 @ 1:30 pm

@Jeff, I wouldn’t say that anyone has to be savvy to use wordpress. I do wordpress and facebook. Facebook makes networking so much easier. I worry about the future of privacy in social networking sites, however.

Jake | November 29th, 2007 @ 8:41 pm

Signed up as well. Proud WP user, willing to show it off to anyone.

Ozh | November 30th, 2007 @ 1:02 am

I moderately use FB to keep track of, and find, old friends. I think 95% of stuff on FB are useless, including a “WP Fan page”. I don’t see any point in it.

Keith | November 30th, 2007 @ 6:29 am

Same as Jake ^^

Benjamin | December 1st, 2007 @ 8:11 am

I became the 800th fan, so there must be a few FB WP users

Paul | December 1st, 2007 @ 12:24 pm

I am like “Ozh” where I use facebook “also known as CrackBook” to keep in touch with friends as I live in the High Arctic in Canada. I had a blog with MSN but was tired of their service so I found wordpress. I set it up on my server and away we go. Wordpress is the best…. I can make it like I want it to be without some administrator telling me I can’t do that….