Cutting the Automatic Crosspost: The Different Genre of Facebook and Blogging
As technology changes, Facebook continues to grow and blogs seem in somewhat of a decline. You’ll hear no worries from this blogger — that’s the point, technology and social media changes. That’s why it’s fun and works so well.
Related to all this, though, I am strongly considering disconnecting my blog from my facebook page. As I have it set up now, every post I put up here at A Wee Blether is automatically posted on my facebook wall as a note. Sometimes this is fine, but often the different genres bother me.
Sure, it’s subtle, but facebook is a way of connecting that I view as much quicker and more superficial than blogging. I’ll plop stuff on my facebook page without thinking twice, but I reflect a little longer before I post on the blog. I think of facebook as the conversation you have out the car window to someone walking by: “hi,” “beautiful day,” “how’s it going?” And blogging is like the conversations you have with more time and a more relational setting.
Originally, I think I connected the blog to facebook purely because I wanted the hits it might bring me. But, after blogging for going on three years, I’ve realized it’s not about the hits. Mostly, I blog for the positive personal gains — I do think it makes me a better person — but I do love comments too. And, actually, I think the facebook note feature of the blog actually cuts down the number of comments I receive on the blog. In a weird way, facebooking blog posts dumbs them down.
So, unless your comments change my mind, I think I’ll disconnect the connection from WordPress to Facebook. I may still put a link to particular posts on my facebook page, but I won’t automatically crosspost everything. Oh how the world is ever-changing.
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I’d rather read your blog posts. I find Facebook unreliable for getting info. Sometimes I find things showing up that were posted last week, and it’s the first time I’ve seen them. Do you won’t get any complaints from me for disconnecting!!
Given the fact that I do not have the most modern system right now, I have found FB a bit of a pain lately, Can not do anything, (Your Facebook experience would be enhanced if you updated your web browser to a …) I have tried to find, you but because of the situation, I can not find or reply to anything.
I will still check in here, although, with some of the things I connect with I might not go there every day to check what is new, at least If I could see you on FB when your blog post is linked, I would remember to check in.
I used to have my blog posts imported into Facebook, but I stopped that and found that in order to delete them I had to delete them all one-by-one. Facebook is notorious in not letting go of your information and I decided I didn’t want my writing over on their system in any form. For now, I’m going to use Friend Feed so that my Twitter status (which is also my FB status) alerts friends on FB that I have a new blog post. My content doesn’t get dumped over on FB, but I can regain some of the readers I used to have when my blog posts were FB notes. I did get more readers and comments over on FB, but I decided, like you, that it was somehow not the right mix.
And the whole “I don’t really trust Facebook” thing that I have. They don’t let you delete all of your notes easily, and that tells me something.
Notify your new blog posts to social networks automatically.
http://www.globinch.com/2010/05/03/notify-your-new-blog-posts-to-social-networks-automatically/