It’s no secret that Facebook and Google don’t really like each other and that fact was highlighted on Monday when Facebook made it slightly harder for Google Blogger users to share posts on the social network.
Facebook has added a Captcha check that requires users to enter hard-to-read text into a box after it is presented as a graphic.
Designed to filter out spam from bots and other tricksters. The program focuses on online sites and doesn’t appear at this time to affect other users such as Official Google Mobile Blog users.
It also appears that the Captcha does not affect more popular Google Blogger websites.
In the meantime LiveJournal, WordPress, TypePad and Squarespace blogging platforms remain free of the annoying captcha feature now used for the Blogger platform. [Read more…]