Commenting on Facebook is so easy that the comment section can end up being hijacked by keyboard warriors and filled up with people’s opinions. They start commenting before they finish reading. Heck! Most don’t even read. They skim through and begin typing their comments. Some of us (including me) skipped to the comment section right away.
In blogs, however, commenting takes a little bit more effort. Without the distraction of the endless posts and (again) Bernie Sanders meme on your newsfeed, you most likely will finish reading the blog post, reflect on it, form an opinion and decide if you want to comment…nicely, I hope.
Hence, I would rather write content and post it on my blog rather than on Facebook. Moreover, the blog belongs to me. I paid for the domain and hosting. Social networking sites don’t belong to me. They could change their content policy and I have no control over it.
While I don’t post content on Facebook, I have to admit it’s a good distribution platform where most bloggers can gain more readers if they share their posts on Facebook. That’s probably what brought you here. Plus, you can pretty much tell if they read your blog post before they comment or they just comment based on the headlines.
Facebook is a wonderful place for me to share interesting and funny stuff I come across as well as quick updates. But for serious shit that takes longer than 2-3 paragraphs that I need to get out of my system, I post it in my blog.
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