Starting today, you’ll notice a big change to our member comment sections on FireRescue1. We’ve implemented Facebook Comments with the goal of making it easier to comment on articles, as well as giving visibility into who’s doing the commenting.
With the new system, you’ll be able to comment on all of our news, columns and videos using your Facebook account, as well as Yahoo, AOL and Hotmail. And there’s the advantage of not having to log into EMS1 each time you want to comment on an article — if you’re logged into Facebook, you’re logged into Facebook Comments.
You’ll also have the option to have your comment post to Facebook, but that’s not required. Whenever you leave a comment on a FireRescue1 article, you’ll see a checkbox asking if you’d like to also post that comment to Facebook. Leave it checked (it is by default), and your comment will be posted on your Facebook wall and in your friends’ news feeds.
Unfortunately, this does mean that old comments on our site will disappear. Although we’ll be losing some of those great past discussions, we’re launching Facebook Comments with the goal of enabling many more new ones.