Real Life & Online Data: Something Has to Give

eric — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:25:14 -0600

When furthering convergence of real life with online data something has to give. People will cut back on something. Commenting, for one, has become too noisy on blogs, in my opinion. People will trim the fat and time involved in managing comments which typically are negative or distract entirely from the information presented.

I don't believe that ALL commenting is bad. I just see that more people are seeing how time-consuming it is to manage and need to cut back on offering that as a communication method on their website.

Maybe it's just me, but I can see people starting to utilize Facebook (and maybe Twitter, although it seems more like an announcement channel rather than a great place to have inclusive dialogue) for comments to keep readers from being distracted from the original article.

I can see something more like this at the bottom of some blogs: "Want to discuss this with others? Head to the Facebook fan page to hash it out with others." Then you just have to check it when you want to and get directly involved or distracted from more important things in life.

I may turn off commenting on this blog, I don't know. Hardly anyone reads it, anyway.

It's just a thought on a trend I've noticed. *shrugs*