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Useless, but time-consuming

In case you had not noticed, this blog has a Facebook page. Like so many other aspects of Facebook, it is largely pointless. You can sign up to be a fan, and you will be listed as such, and that is about as far as it goes.

Unless there is some Facebook wizardry with which I am not yet acquainted.

Also today, with profoundest misgivings, I signed up for Twitter. I didn’t want to. Alice made me. She taunted me.

So if you, too, have abandoned yourself to the world of 140-character morsels, you’ll know where to find me.

Posted by John McIntyre at 5:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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Doesn't have to be entirely useless. You could randomly give stuff away to Facebook fans. You know, pencils, money, jobs *ahem*. LOL

Posted by: Luke Morris | March 28, 2009 7:02 PM

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John McIntyre, mild-mannered editor for a great metropolitan newspaper, has fussed over writers’ work, to sporadic expressions of gratitude, for thirty years. He is The Sun’s night content production manager and former head of its copy desk. He also teaches editing at Loyola University Maryland. A former president of the American Copy Editors Society, a native of Kentucky, a graduate of Michigan State and Syracuse, and a moderate prescriptivist, he writes about language, journalism, and arbitrarily chosen topics. If you are inspired by a spirit of contradiction, comment on the posts or write to him at john.mcintyre@baltsun.com.

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