Faith and Fear’s Facebook cover photo
Social media integration has become essential for bloggers, begging the question: how well do you connect to your readers and followers? What makes social media important is its capability to constantly connect a blogger to readers without having to write an entire new post. A tweet can add a new opinion. A Facebook post can share a new link. It just adds a new facet to the blogging game without blogging necessarily.
Faith and Fear in Flushing has its own page on Facebook page, and the writers of the blog, Greg Prince and Jason Fry, both tweet often from their own personal handles. After following all of these social media options, it seems that they are all not only relevant, but updated often with posts related to their niche readers interests.
Faith and Fear joined Facebook back in 2008. The fairly new “Timeline” format of Facebook showcases a collection of photos from Prince and Fry. For the reader, the feature allows a channel to get to know the writers on a visual level. By going back in time, a reader can also see the development of the blog and outstanding comments by other readers as well. It is really what “timeline” was made for, except in this case in use by a blog and not a person.
Photos of Prince (left and far right) and Fry (middle) appear on Fair and Fear’s Facebook Timeline throughout the years.
Facebook also allows Faith and Fear to share their posts and also other links that they think readers will find interesting. Mets-related posts from “Deadspin,” updates on a Mets broadcaster working a playoff game, and links to other Mets blogs all grace Faith and Fear’s Facebook timeline. Above all else, Facebook provides another centralized forum for readers to interact and comment.
The bloggers’ use of Twitter differs because they do not use one centralized Faith and Fear handle. Prince and Fry both use their own personal handles to reach out to their readers. In terms of using Twitter to stay up to date with blog posts, Prince’s feed is the go to source since he frequently linking readers through his tweets. Both writers are extremely active with their tweets, with a focus on baseball (Fry will also tweet occasionally about his second love, Star Wars). Both feeds are good sources for Mets fans and Faith and Fear readers alike. The writers hold to their niche focus and writing style. Prince will frequently live tweet games keeping to the true fan theme.
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