Monday, August 24, 2009
Facebook vs. Blog
The feed from this blog goes directly to my Facebook page. People comment there as well as (perhaps more than) on the blog – fair enough, seeing as I’m responsible for making that possible. However, I’m now not so convinced that it was a good idea, so I think I might cut the Facebook feed. It just makes sense to have all comments at the same place and, in any case, non-members of Facebook can’t read the comments there. Does anyone feel strongly about this? i.e. do people much prefer the convenience of reading my blog content as a Facebook note? If so, I might rethink…
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I'd see it as potentially widening your audience. I certainly see it that way myself, especially as my posts go through my Facebook page, which has readers who aren't my Facebook friends.
This is actually one reason why I haven't added the Networked Blogs version of Via Negativa to my Facebook feed yet. I may start publishing the RSS feed as Notes, though. There is a plugin for Wordpress that I could use to fetch comments from Notes so generated and re-publish them as comments to the appropriate posts. (I realize that doesn't do you much good as a Blogger blogger, except to show that you're far from alone in being concerned about this.)
I see that, Andy. I wish I could switch the Facebook comments box off though.
Dave, I haven't added the Networked Blogs to my Facebook feed either - it's the RSS feed as Notes that I'm concerned about. However, I had a look yesterday and couldn't work out how to turn it off, so I'm stuck with it at the moment. Does anyone know how?
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