I recently made the decision to switch from Facebook Comments and exclusively use Disqus on all of my websites. If any of you are thinking about integrating either of these products into your website, read on to see why I made my decision:

1) Disqus - Advantages:

I hate getting my car smogged. If you live in California, you'll hate it too every time you do it (which is once every two years unless your car is less than six year old). This is because it's a locally added expense that takes time and it's not cheap. Depending where you do it, it'll cost you around $50 - $75. The place where I went to, Quarter Note Smog, had a regular price of $55:

UPDATE: I just realized that I also have customized versions of the sharebar & follow blocks on all of my websites. Future blog posts will cover these topics.

On June 11, 2013, Twitter updated its API from version 1 to 1.1. This caused a lot of headaches and rendered a bunch of Drupal modules useless all of a sudden, including the following:

Look to the right and you'll notice two matching blocks called "Find us on Facebook" & Find me on Twitter" (my other websites Mediography.by & Vector.dj have their own versions). You see these blocks everywhere these days. Today I'll show you how to do the Facebook block for Drupal websites (with a module), with the more important goal of showing you (on a future blog post) how to set up the Twitter block (without a module).