If Facebook had a blogging feature, would you use it? I’m betting that you’d at least consider it and so is Chris Crum. In fact, Chris Crum makes one of the best recommendations that I’ve seen in a while.
In short order, Chris’s suggestion is for Facebook to change its Notes tab to a Blog tab and compete head on with Google in the blogosphere. That’s not a bad recommendation for several reasons:
- Facebook is the second most visited site online (behind Google) so having a blog there would give Facebook bloggers a huge benefit and built in traffic.
- Many Facebook users are not bloggers, but they might become bloggers if Facebook had that option available.
- Many successful bloggers, seeing the benefit of having a blog on Facebook, would start a Facebook blog to supplement their current blogs.
- Adding a blog feature would provide Facebook with more user-generated content and make Facebook itself more search friendly (even at Google).
Now I’m curious, if Facebook had a blog feature, would you use it? Would you do more to promote your business through Facebook’s blogging service?
I like the idea. It would be a good place for businesses with a Facebook page to build content and interact more with fans. The question I have is, if Facebook were to do this would Google index that info? Last I heard, Google wasn't indexing Facebook info in their social search index.
It is a logical step for Facebook to take, though.
Hey Greg, that's the beauty of the Facebook Fan Page – it's the only part of Facebook that is searchable and indexed by Google and the search engines; I imagine the blog feature would be as well, which would be an added bonus from a search engine optimization standpoint for business owners!
I have always thought that FB should have a blogging feature! At this point, I only use FB for my close(ish) relationships…and I still see a need for a blogging feature. I've wanted to keep a blog chronicling my crazy family life – especially about what my kids are up to, but don't want to put something like that out on one of the blogging platforms because of privacy concerns (and not wanting to make my friends and families remember passwords, etc.) Having a platform right on FB would take care of that concern entirely.
As far as for business – I think Chris is right on the money. So many businesses are using the fan/friend feature – I am sure they'd use a blogging feature, too. Nice opportunity to go a little deeper than you can with a status or wall post.
BTW – this is my first visit to your blog; looks like a good one!
I think Facebook is already getting too complicated. I admit I have not taken the time to figure out all the layers or proper uses of them, so could be convinced differently I suppose.