Published Date: July 22, 2012

I’m a little late to the party but I finally read theĀ Why Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under 25 article that gathered so much attention.

I don’t want to comment on the post, but rather touch on the Facebook commenting system used by the site. I read the post, got to the comments, and scrolled down to see the following..

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Even though there are over 400 comments on the article, all the comments on the first page were threads from people I know – Jay Thompson, Kristy Bolsinger, Derek Overbey, Debra Trappen, and Jonathan Dalton. Now, I’m interested in comments from everyone — but they made the correct assumption that I care more about the comments from people I already know and chose to highlight those first. Turns out those Facebook people know a thing or two about social preferences…

Maybe I’ll rethink my reliance on Disqus.