One of the side effects of my friends becoming active in Facebook has been the loss of their voice here on my blog. And while some friends still drop by from time-to-time to catch up with what is on my mind and what I have been up to, generally speaking, a number of my friends are more apt to comment on a “Note” I post on Facebook rather than compose the effort to visit my blog and comment on a blog post. And while I never expected to see every blog post receive a comment, I could usually count on seeing “bunches” of comments posted here every once in a while. But that phenomenon seems to have shifted by to Facebook in sync with the instance my friends are now spending in Facebook.

So it feels whether I’m looking for an engaged audience to comment about something on my mind, I am most likely better off posting a note on Facebook than making another entry in my blog. On Facebook, when I post a Note, it signals the start of a group conversation.

One thing I do find interesting is while the traffic on my blog exposes all my cumulative subject matter to a growing worldwide audience, at any given moment, the 4200 “friends” of mine on Facebook collectively seem to be more engaged to join the conversation, and they construct the effort needed to be heard more often than the random stranger who visits my blog.

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looking at a couple of blog posts from that week, yesterday’s blog post concerning my predictions for 2008 so far received no comments, and the same substance posted as a note on Facebook received 12. My post earlier that week requesting a new Invisibility feature be added on Facebook yielded 4 comments on my blog and the same substance posted as a note has 34 comments and that conversation is continuing.

The issue here isn’t simply the importing of a blog post into Facebook. That solution exists and is easy to implement. Turns out I don’t want to take every blog post of mine and turn it into a Facebook Note. But what I would like to do is find a way to enable the conversation to take place across multiple social networks, and seamlessly share each of the comments as part of a threaded conversation.

And it isn’t as whether the entire conversation is shifting to Facebook, but it does feel as whether something has shifted. I’m wondering how many other bloggers who plus have embraced Facebook are experiencing something similar. I would like to know. Please drop me a line or share your experiences in the comments below.

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Readers of my blog are invited to join me on both twitter and Facebook.

Tags: Invisible, Facebook, Social Media, Jeff Pulver

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