While I have not changed my mind about the evils and just plain silliness of Facebook, I have a confession to make. I’ve set up a Pied Type page on Facebook. Although FB is called a “social network,” I noticed a lot of businesses, organizations, and politicians, for example, openly use Facebook as a way to publicize themselves, sooo …
I decided what’s sauce for the goose might be sauce for the gander — provided I can work through 5,000 options and figure out how the whole networking thing works. Several early concerns. They say on the sign-up you’re supposed to use your real name. Umm, you think they’ll notice that “Pied Type” is not a real name? Also, there seems to be a way to set up a page for a business or website, but when I tried to do that, all I got was an email about setting up an ad, for a charge, of course. Apparently until I cough up some cash, I can’t have such a page.
Not sure how all this will work out, since I’m such a stickler for privacy, but we’ll see. Meanwhile, if any of you Facebook aficionados have any tips on how better to exploit FB, don’t be shy.
Well, they don’t seem to care that I’ve gotten a new name, so meh, just do what you want.
I shall. 400 million users is pretty good cover.