Why I won’t use Google Talk Chatback widget!
Google recently added Chatback widget in the list of ever increasing features of Google Talk (unfortunately only web based ones). Chatback widget is much like meebo me or AOL’s Wimzi widget (our coverage) which allows you to chat with visitors on your website.
Unfortunately like AOL Wimzi, Meebome I’ve decided that I won’t be using Google Talk Chatback widget on ReviewSaurus or any of my website. Here are the reasons for that :
1. Chat is good for socializing only : Chat is a very good way of communication and for socializing however, they are one of the biggest time wasters too. That’s one of the reason that many corporate’s don’t allow chatting however, they keep it open amongst company employees only.
2. I don’t want to miss the quality content : Google talk will allow me to chat to my website’s visitors however, the reason why readers would like to chat with me will be most likely because they want some help in any of the software or operating system issues or may be need some help in the wordpress theme or something like that. I would rather answer them in the forum or blog comments.
Not only that will generate the content for the blog, but the comments by others will be helpful for others too, but because Google talk is private between a particular visitor and me, that chat won’t be helpful to others. This post of mine is a classic example of how comments have helped many other visitors and other visitors have contributed in this small knowledge bank.
3. It’s not a community thing : It will certainly help in building relationship with the visitors, however it won’t help in building the community. Visitors will only know you but they won’t know other visitors. Building a community around a blog is not only important for a webmaster, it’s beneficial for all the community members too.
Will you be applying Google Talk Chatback or AOL’s Wimzi or Meebo me on your blog ?
