I know lots of folks who like to have everything they share on one social network (eg Google+) magically appear on all others they use, too (eg Twitter & Facebook).<\/p>\n
While I sometimes share identical content out to several networks, I rarely want precisely<\/em> the same thing going\u00a0everywhere<\/strong> all the time. In fact, while I love employing Buffer<\/a>\u00a0and IFTTT<\/a>\u00a0(including using the latter to push<\/a> content from G+ elsewhere), I rarely like having the same posts (which aren’t links) appear anywhere else.<\/p>\n Why? To ensure I don’t miss some of the conversation or points raised by splitting my attention between, say, Facebook and Google+.<\/p>\n I find that the communities represented on the social networks I use, while overlaps occur, tend to be relatively distinct.<\/p>\n I see this problem occur in communities I belong to, too – such as the BGLUG<\/a>. There’s a Facebook group<\/a>, and a Google+ community. When events are scheduled, they get posted both places: which is great for publicity .. but not so much for keeping continuity<\/a> of community<\/a>.<\/p>\n Continuity of conversation and interaction is a Big Deal\u2122, in my opinion.<\/p>\n Multiple conversation points are great – but fragmentation of discussion is not so great (eg comments on a blog post + comments on the social network link post of the blog post).<\/p>\n I asked a question about a subset of this problem a few years ago on Stack Overflow<\/a>\u00a0– and the best answer for integrating WordPress-to-Facebook commenting was to use a plugin. That’s awesome – but doesn’t begin to solve the problem of discussions across more than one network.<\/p>\n So, for now, I’ll continue to encourage all my socially-network friends, colleagues, family, and readers to keep conversations as separate as possible on the networks they frequent: improve your signal-to-noise ratio, and make the internet a better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know lots of folks who like to have everything they share on one social network (eg Google+) magically appear on all others they use, too (eg Twitter & Facebook). While I sometimes share identical content out to several networks, I rarely want precisely the same thing going\u00a0everywhere all the time. In fact, while I …
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