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When I post something of substance to this site, I usually post links on social media, typically Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to make the world aware of it. I notice that people are far more willing to leave comments on those social media links than they are against the blog posts themselves.

While I appreciate feedback and engagement via any route it would be nice if the conversations weren’t fragmented across multiple sites. I have done a bit of superficial research to see if there are any WordPress plugins that let me synchronise comments between WordPress and this blog, and to date (like Bono) I haven’t found what I’m looking for. It may well be that Facebook want to keep things within their walled garden for monetisation purposes, so such a plugin would defeat their evil plans for world domination.

So, those of you who tend to leave comments on Facebook rather than here on the blog, why do you do this? It can’t be to do with privacy, because I usually make links to my blog public, and unlike Facebook this site allows you to comment pseudonymously. Are there things I could or should do to make you more willing to leave comments on the actual blog?

Note that the first comment you leave will go into a moderation queue purely as an anti-spam measure, but once that one’s been approved, all subsequent comments will go straight through.