'Do Twitter and Facebook make blog comments easier?' blog discussion

jamesd

I'm certainly not going to use Facebook, I'm disinclined to have an account with a company that makes its money by compromising my privacy.

For those who want to use it, having a way to display comments may be useful, though if the detailed comments in the forum are more useful it might just give a misleading impression that people are seeing all comments instead of only those giving brief feedback. That may discourage people from reading the more useful comments.

Eco_Miser

So we now have comments on the blog page, which only twitter or facebook subscribers can make, and posts on the forum, which only those registered for the forum can make.
How many people won't read both?

jackieblack

BettySpofkins wrote: »

Nope, no interest at all. (I wish the BBC would learn that too rather than spurting my licence fee on incessantly advertising these inane "services".) The problem is that only people who can be bothered to use it will be able to respond, so the response to Martin's post will be skewed by definition.

luxor4t wrote: »

As a teacher I don't 'do' Facebook: too many complications!

jamesd wrote: »

I'm certainly not going to use Facebook, I'm disinclined to have an account with a company that makes its money by compromising my privacy.

Totally agree with all of these comments

I loathe the way so many organisations are dumbing down to the lowest common denominator and demeaning/associating themselves with Facebook........ it totally puts me off using them/their services.