(Originally published with Facebook Notes)
I’m taking a leap of faith here. I’m giving Facebook Pages the boot.
I know it’s sad especially since I have this awesome www.facebook.com/multimediajournalist URL, but sometimes you have to cut your loses and do a little experimenting.
In some ways Facebook’s journalism initiative goes against Zuckerberg’s own philosophies about privacy on the Internet. The push for more journalists to use Facebook as a resource may have been a good one, but I’m still not convinced I actually NEED a Facebook page.
More than ever journalists are becoming public figures. We’re not quite there yet (and hopefully we never will be), but it’s hard to argue the modern journo’s role isn’t more public. Gone are the days of snail mail ‘letters to the editor’ and hiding being behind fancy bylines printed in Old English type. Continue reading
