Back when I was posting less, I set up the blog to publish as notes via rss on my facebook page. And so, I get comments both places. For the most part, this is fine, but every so often a post sparks the sort of comments which are more conversational, and readers interact with one another. The division of such comments between the places seems wrong.
I am not a very active facebook user, I typically check in once a day for a few minutes. I am much more likely to catch something via my feed reader than the notes section of facebook, but I realize others have different habits. Being able to “like” something on facebook with just a click, without needing to say more, is something I value, though.
Perhaps there isn’t a great solution. I am thankful that anyone reads anything I write and grateful for the chance to hear your feedback, kind readers. Conversations are important to me, and I will take what I can get, scattered as they may be.
I’m experiencing this phenomenon, too. I’m still not sure what to think of it. Because the historian in me is freaked out by the scattered record. But the humanist in me is intrigued by the very different conversation that happens with a different pool of people reading.
Same here. I don’t use the same rss importer app thingy you use at fb that imports all of your post. I use one called Simplaris Blogcast. It basically posts a teaser of the new post and a thumbnail from my blog. I still get friends who follow the link and read my posts on my blog then go back to facebook to make a comment. Seriously. They say it’s too hard to figure out how to comment on my blog. Go figure. I hate that; like Jeanette, I get freaked out by the scattered records.
I’ve fallen off the public writing wagon for a while and am finally getting ready to get back to it, but there is a little plugin that will allow readers to basically do a simple like/dislike/so-so type response with a thumbs up, thumbs down, smiley, frown type icons. I’m thinking of adding that just so I can get more feedback (even the simplest) on my blog.
I have the same issue. I wish there were some way of synchronizing the comments, or making it so when someone clicked to comment it popped up the blogger window, or something…
I thought having my blog on networked blogs would fix that issue, but nay. When I get comments on FB re: my blog posts I wonder if they actually read the whole post.
I use selective twitter to sometimes post my twitter bits as FB status messages and find it interesting who comments where and what kind of comments I get.
i have the same dilemma. the split comments. wish there were a better solution. i have friends who have it set up so facebook tells when there’s a new blog post, but you have to click to the blog to read the post. i want to figure out how to do that, i think.