Once upon a time and it wasn’t really that long ago, you would post a blog entry and people would either comment on it directly, or they’d write their own post and link to you.
In 2011 with people cross-posting their RSS to multiple targets such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn (and a load of other places) some people are saying that they aren’t getting the volume of comments they used to. At least not on their blogs. They’re seeing the reactions on the other platforms / networks
I’ve seen this to a certain degree, but what about other people? Is this common? A trend? A fad?
This is something I have been thinking about in recent months. I seem to get very little comments wise on my own blog. I seem to get most of my reaction on blog posts in 3 main form factors.
Twitter, in the form of short commentaries and retweets.
Facebook when I link a post to my own private profile I get lots of comments and likes.
And finally as I blog about kayaking / all things whitewater related for the most part I often get readers posting links to my posts in forums that cover the niche topics I write about.
As in keeping track on a blog I post on I will usually subscribe to the comment rss feed from there.
Adrian
trying to keep up with all reactions and responses can be a handful even for a small blog like mine.
I think that as it’s become easier to share content on places such as twitter, facebook, tumblr, reddit etc people have become shitter at attriubting where they saw stuff. So you may write something cool but have to check your stats to actually find out where people end up talking about it.
I almost didn’t reply to this because the comments form was four pages of related entries below the article!
personally, I prefer to reply to the blog post itself. it’s more permanent and more visible.
Kae – thanks for pointing that out – I’ll see if I can tweak the settings to limit the number of related entries (it’s based on the tags)
Michele
I’m not saying – I never post comments on blogs any more 🙂
I think you are right to certain extent, and I guess I am in the minority these days – but I’m with Kae on preferring blog posts.
One thing I also notice is that even though I practically never post on Facebook, my twitter posts do come up there, and I get a lot more comments and likes there than I ever get retweets even though fewer people see it on Facebook (and they probably wonder what the hashes are in aid of). Maybe this is an indication that twitter is more of a one way stream, or maybe all my ‘friends’ on Facebook are a bit weird… (Sorry, I am digressing to a serious degree now…)