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why not discourage illegal activities/rule breaking by taking away the recognition? Remove the offender's log (if they clearly ignored posted signs and knowingly broke laws/rules) and hand the ftf to someone else. I'm sure people would balk at the idea, but it would likely send out a clear message that rules must be read and obeyed.

For the record, calling "hundreds of their friends every time the go cacheing" seems a bit excessive. If you want that many people to cache with you, maybe you should try to organize (or attend) an event. You're still not presenting any reasonable (logical) opinions and ideas. Think it over a bit before you try to make a case about something that the community has implemented before and found to be an ineffective tool, please.

You realize you're no better in this thread? I think you've successfully ignored every point that people have made against facebook integration because you want it yourself. If you're going to complain this much while people are giving honest opinions and well thought out responses, you might as well let it die. I've yet to see you back up what you want with well thought out ideas. You want to broadcast that you're geocaching; that's it. That's apparently all you want. You say you'd like to hook up with people that are out geocaching, but here's a thought: phone calls. People have cell phones. I imagine that not everyone has an ipad (or smartphone) out in the woods with them to check their/your status while they're out caching. I'm pretty sure cachers are more concerned about the experience and the hike (or drive), and facebook would be... well, useless. Your idea sounds like it would be reasonable at times, but the situations you keep presenting (I think you've presented two, possibly three) just don't seem... realistic. I could go into facebook's history of tracking its users as they travel through cyberspace without their permission/consent through cookies both on fb and through the buttons posted, but I won't get into that. People have probably beaten that (and this topic) into the ground before.

Seems like this is just a thread of people attacking each other. Fun fun. The problem with facebook integration is that it tracks what you do and where you go. And people don't like that. Also, no one likes people that post entry after entry of "I found this cache" and "I found that cache." You're spamming your friends, and potentially giving GC.com negative attention. When people block the app so that they can't see it, that's not giving GC.com positive publicity. It's not giving it any publicity because people are blocking it so that their dash (or whatever) isn't filled with crap. As much as people like to believe so, programer's aren't gods. It takes more than a click and "turn this feature on!" to get the whole process going, and from the sounds of it, it was taken down before because of public outcry. All that work for nothing? I couldn't imagine wanting to go through the trial and error process of coding and redesigning some pages for something that's just going to be taken down anyway. Save your friends the hassle and don't spam them. If you want to advertise geocaching, go on fb later and say "Hey, went geocaching today! Here're some pictures, and if anyone's interested, check it out!" *edit - Also, agree completely with Castle Mischief