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May. 15th, 2013 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogToday on Facebook, I "liked" a couple of podcasts that I listen to all the time.* And as I drove here thinking about my plan to do so, I also thought about the frustration I will likely feel if I try to take part in conversation on their Facebook walls.
A lot of it comes from the fact that there is no threading in Facebook conversations. If I want to respond to someone who said something interesting, I have to use their name specifically and hope they see it, as well as that other people won't think I'm responding to something else entirely. And if I want to respond to the original post and I'm not quick enough to get in near the top, it's possible again that other people will think I'm talking to them, or that there'll be enough distance between my post and the original one that the conversation becomes unclear. The whole system produces conversation that feels very disjointed and frustrating to me. It's also a system where I feel pressured to write something quickly enough that it's near the top and therefore still relevant, which leads to ill-considered thoughts or phrases sometimes.
Do any of my readers feel the same way? Do you have effective responses to these issues? And why doesn't Facebook (not to mention all the other sites out there) just do threaded comments?
*For those interested, I speak of Backstory (a cool history podcast) and Polyamory Weekly, a podcast discussing polyamory-related issues. I like Polyamory Weekly a lot more than I expected I would before I gave it a try, so I also recommend it.
A lot of it comes from the fact that there is no threading in Facebook conversations. If I want to respond to someone who said something interesting, I have to use their name specifically and hope they see it, as well as that other people won't think I'm responding to something else entirely. And if I want to respond to the original post and I'm not quick enough to get in near the top, it's possible again that other people will think I'm talking to them, or that there'll be enough distance between my post and the original one that the conversation becomes unclear. The whole system produces conversation that feels very disjointed and frustrating to me. It's also a system where I feel pressured to write something quickly enough that it's near the top and therefore still relevant, which leads to ill-considered thoughts or phrases sometimes.
Do any of my readers feel the same way? Do you have effective responses to these issues? And why doesn't Facebook (not to mention all the other sites out there) just do threaded comments?
*For those interested, I speak of Backstory (a cool history podcast) and Polyamory Weekly, a podcast discussing polyamory-related issues. I like Polyamory Weekly a lot more than I expected I would before I gave it a try, so I also recommend it.
