I’ve been on Facebook a lot lately, partly because I’m teaching a course on it this spring (no, really) and partly just because it’s fun. My two favorite applications so far are Scrabulous, where you can play online Scrabble with your friends, and SuperPoke! where you can do things like throw elves at and spin dreidels with your friends.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the amount of other writers and literary types are on it. I’m assuming that it’s a factor of the collegial beginnings of the site (it was founded by a young Harvard student who’s still only 23, in case you didn’t know). But my indie writer friends are on it, and The National Council of Teachers of English are on it, and the Academy of American Poets are on it, and some of the lit theorists I studied in college and graduate school are on it. I think I just used it to network myself into a book review assignment, even.
Facebook: not just for posting drunk pictures of you and your college buddies, I guess.
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I agree. I’m on linked in as well, but Facebook seems to be the place to go for networking. That’s one of the big reasons I joined!
It’s a surprising side benefit, for sure. Especially since a lot of the MSM coverage is about college kids losing internships and stuff because of what they leave public on their Fbook pages. I think the privacy controls they have are great, but they get seriously underutilized.