More and more moves to Facebook comments

by Øyvind Lasse Høysæter · Published 17 March 2011 · Updated 13 October 2016

More newspapers and blogs enables Facebook comments instead of native comment systems – what do you think about this?

Is it fair that you have to be a Facebook-user to be able to participate? I have mixed feelings for this, but I understand why they do it. Anonymous commenters have ruined the whole system and made it impossible to manage. Its not fair that a small newspaper has to employ dozens of people only to moderate the comments.

VG, a large newspaper in Norway is testing it out now on their travel-category, I’m excited to follow how people react to it.

Tags: comments facebook kommentarer

Øyvind Lasse Høysæter

Born in 1971, fell in love with computing in 1983 because of Sinclair's masterpieces. Continued on the magic surrounding the C64, Amiga and moved to the PC world in 1990. Loves science fiction, programming, astronomy, my family and my job. (developer) :)

Charlie says:

17 March 2011 at 14:22

Jeg skrev inn en kommentar til innlegget på dagbladet, men da det kom opp at jeg måtte kommentere ved bruk av facebook-konto valgte jeg å ikke gjøre det. Jeg ønsker å forbli anonym når jeg skal kommentere på innlegg på nettsider.

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Emm says:

19 March 2011 at 9:43

I consider my Facebook details to be private so I wouldn’t under any circumstances use my Facebook details to comment on a public forum.

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- oyvind says:
  
  20 March 2011 at 0:14
  
  Hi Emm! Same here, I use my Facebook for RL friends and family.
  
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  - Emm says:
    
    22 March 2011 at 12:48
    
    Me too! Sometimes I’ll make good enough friends withsomeone from the Blogosphere to add them on FB but not often.
    
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