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…

3 comments:

Andrew Philip said...

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.

Dave said...

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.)

Rob said...

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?