Comments on: Comments – is Facebook the answer? http://davepress.net/2011/03/02/comments-is-facebook-the-answer/ Open government and everything else Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:22:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Tim Lloyd http://davepress.net/2011/03/02/comments-is-facebook-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-10781 Tim Lloyd Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:48:37 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=18006#comment-10781 I think this sounds great in principle, especially if there is evidence to support an improvement in overall quality of comments. My worry is that Facebook seems to increasingly polarise people. Those who may be comfortable commenting on newspaper articles (meaningfully) or reviewing hotels are not necessarily fans of social media platforms like Facebook. When I'm talking to web sceptics its far easier to get them interested in reading and commenting on blogs, than it is Facebook. I think this sounds great in principle, especially if there is evidence to support an improvement in overall quality of comments. My worry is that Facebook seems to increasingly polarise people. Those who may be comfortable commenting on newspaper articles (meaningfully) or reviewing hotels are not necessarily fans of social media platforms like Facebook. When I’m talking to web sceptics its far easier to get them interested in reading and commenting on blogs, than it is Facebook.

]]> By: Paul Evans http://davepress.net/2011/03/02/comments-is-facebook-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-10770 Paul Evans Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:24:01 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=18006#comment-10770 Peter Levine has treated Facebook as his main comment thread for quite a long time now - here: http://www.peterlevine.ws/mt/ I've also met very few people who don't underestimate the value of Facebook in marketing blog content - mainly because it doesn't show up in your stats - a lot of readers register the post-title and opening para in their Facebook stream. I did some work for an MP recently - his blog stats went up (as did his click-throughs from Facebook) but he also noticed the 'soft' benefits - more MPs were quoting him, more journalists were calling him for quotes, etc. There are lots of reasons to do with 'shouting' not to use Facebook though.... Peter Levine has treated Facebook as his main comment thread for quite a long time now – here: http://www.peterlevine.ws/mt/

I’ve also met very few people who don’t underestimate the value of Facebook in marketing blog content – mainly because it doesn’t show up in your stats – a lot of readers register the post-title and opening para in their Facebook stream. I did some work for an MP recently – his blog stats went up (as did his click-throughs from Facebook) but he also noticed the ‘soft’ benefits – more MPs were quoting him, more journalists were calling him for quotes, etc.

There are lots of reasons to do with ‘shouting’ not to use Facebook though….

]]> By: Kevin Peyton http://davepress.net/2011/03/02/comments-is-facebook-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-10769 Kevin Peyton Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:28:09 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=18006#comment-10769 Agree with the issues that you raised at the end - and the comment from Will. The experiment from TechCrunch will have undoubted success - but you would need to have an appreciation upfront of whether your readers are in the majority with facebook accounts - which of course, you will not have.. Agree with the issues that you raised at the end – and the comment from Will.

The experiment from TechCrunch will have undoubted success – but you would need to have an appreciation upfront of whether your readers are in the majority with facebook accounts – which of course, you will not have..

]]> By: william perrin http://davepress.net/2011/03/02/comments-is-facebook-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-10768 william perrin Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:11:18 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=18006#comment-10768 couldn't agree more - if you have a troll problem do it straight away my hunch would be that many more people will come along and comment if the trolls are gone than people who don't have facebook accounts however there is a DDA issue i think - facebook not being perfectly accessible as well as people with disabilities of the people whose comments are worth having it's the deep geeks who tend not to be on facebook much couldn’t agree more – if you have a troll problem do it straight away

my hunch would be that many more people will come along and comment if the trolls are gone than people who don’t have facebook accounts

however there is a DDA issue i think – facebook not being perfectly accessible

as well as people with disabilities of the people whose comments are worth having it’s the deep geeks who tend not to be on facebook much

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