Facebook commenting coming to the OCVarsity blog
October 4th, 2011, 1:24 pm · · posted by OCVARSITY.COM
UPDATE: This change will not take place on Thursday evening, but will instead take place early next week.
Starting Thursday evening, you will need a Facebook account to comment on the OCVarsity blog. To see how this works, see any article on OCVarsity.com, where Facebook commenting has been in place for some time now. The change will no longer allow anonymous commenting and will tie users’ comments to their Facebook identities. Facebook has recently developed a series of privacy controls allowing others to see only what you want them to see.
Also making the switch is our parent site, OCRegister.com. To learn more about the reason for the switch, read this article by Orange County Register Editor Ken Brusic. And you can check out the Facebook commenting FAQ.
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All for this! No more hate comments when people have to show who they really are!
uh … why bother with this change since people can make a dozen or so FB accounts with fake aliases. Lol.
I am done with this blog then. Not necessary on many major blogs like Yahoo etc and takes a lot of the fun out of it. Good Luck register
So you like posting anything you want anonymously? Most of the posts on Yahoo are so racist and hate filled that they are looking into a new way of posting there as well. It is easy to be a bully on the internet and be a coward by hiding behind a fake name.
PatsFan that really isn’t the issue , whoever you are.not sure what you post on yahoo but all of mine are sports related. However, I did see where some folks called Herman Cain a racist. Yahoo actually would be better for sports than OC register on articles at least based on the numbers participating.
can someone please tell this old fart what Facebook is?
So the older high school sports fan won’t be allowed to put there 2 cents in? I’m 25 so I’m good but its kinda unfair.
I don’t have and don’t want a facebook account. Guess that leaves me out too.
Well miss you Martha
im out dont want to have to give all my personal info just to add my 2 cents.
lol … http://www.facebook.com/pages/Country/258517640856602
It’s as easy as that.
Dumb idea Steve and Dan. I have no desire or need to open a facebook account. Unlike everyone under 40, I don’t think it is appropriate to have my life on some “wall” for all to comment on and observe, just so I can post to this site.
Have fun…pretty sure the majority of the old guard (who actually may have something appropriate to add) are out.
Not our concept. We will roll with it; seems to work OK for many other newspaper websites.
I am all over the web every day — including into most major newspapers and political web sites. Not one of them requires membership in Facebook to post a comment. Very poor business decision IMHO.
Polo Nono – your comment demonstrates a general lack of understanding of Facebook and the controls that one can put on their information. If you want to comment on OCVarsity, which has by far the best prep sports coverage, then I guess you DO need a Facebook account. Just ask any 18-year-old and they can help you with privacy settings.
Plenty of people 40+ are on Facebook (which is why they have 800 Million members). Social Media – and the cross pollination of social sites – is the way of the future. I believe it was Darwin that put it best when he stated “adapt or die”.
Hope you evolve with the rest of us because I do generally enjoy your comments and water polo insight.
Thanks H2O….aside from the condisending lecture, I appreciate your comments. I am surprised from a philosophic stand point that the Register is moving to the facebook requirement. It really flies in the face of the Libertarian principles that the paper was originally founded on. if Freedom Press is not careful they will start to resemble their liberal brother to the North (the Times truely sucks),
Once opened a face book account and had over 200 people wanting to be my what ever. Closed it the same day.
“Big Brother” is alive and well in America, but this “Baby Boomer” chooses to bail. I”ll miss it, but don’t care to give another piece of my 1st Amendment away in the name of prep football. The Whitier Daily News started this earlier and in my opinion, it has been an even more boring rag than it was before…by far.
I’ll go thru withdrawals and look for other time consuming ventures, one of which, would be a blog site for the folks that are displaced here…maybe an opportunity for some OCV staff! Stay tuned. It will be statewide, at least! Seeking investors.
Hey The Guild, we can go into biz together.. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Well let me just tell you what I’m thinking my fellow Servite alum.. Let’s make a website dedicated to oc football. No newspaper just hs football news from oc on the internet..
I just so happen to know a good experienced sports cameraman and a couple of hs sports reporters..
The last time the Register tried to “fix” a problem with posts by people it ended up with no one posting on the message boards that had been hugely popular. There are articles on the Register now that require a Facebook log in to post. These also happen to be the articles that have no comments on them.
Good luck with the change.
Way to kill the message boards Steve… Everything good about the ocvarsity will be gone tomm.. RIP OC Varsity.
GEEEEZZZZZ…. you dont have to give any personal information to make a facebook page. You can make the whole thing up except you need an email address. Wow, for such sophisticated bloggers on here, you cant go make up a “new” email address on yahoo or your favorite other site. Facebook sends an email to activate your “new” Facebook page to your “New” email on yahoo that you just made, and now you have a new facebook page. Took all of maybe 45 seconds to make it with no personal date exposed to anyone.
The point is 2002tony, I shouldn’t have to hide behind a fiticious name and challenge my value system in order to express myself on a simple prep football blog. I enjoy many of today’s electronic advantages, but I didn’t fight for this country to watch technology hack away at my privacy rights. The Register already has the ability to monitor and/or block bloggers they find offensive or threating. Since I choose not to sign on to one (1) company’s product (facebook) I no longer have the right to participate on the blog. It is just a micro view of what I feel is wrong with America’s corporate media today….Control the messenger and you control the message….and the people. Sorry to sound so political, but this particular blog is about access, not prep football and deserves an appropriate response.
As usual, the simple-minded fringe buffoons ruin it for everyone.