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When I Blog, I Get Almost No Comments...

...and when I post on Facebook, I have a much better chance that one or more of my 200-plus friends will comment.  I love that.  I like getting a conversation going. So, that's also a big part of why I blog less and Facebook-post more ( as I wrote about the other day ).  Facebook is like blogging on speed.  I like the limitations of those little boxes because they force me to edit so carefully.  And I love the dialogue that at least sometimes occurs on Facebook. Back in my blogging "heyday", when I would say blogging was more popular and not as divided into mega-blogging mommies who are making a living off of blogging and get most of the readership--and the rest of us more normal folks--there were many more comments on my blog.  In fact, bloggers live/lived by an unwritten code of ethics that states, "don't just lurk, comment already!"  In order to get readers to our blogs, we commented on other people's blogs.  Or even if we didn't care so mu...