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Facebook and The Age

Thursday 27 September 2007, 4:12 pm

John Surname

Categories: The Age

Tags: Facebook, TheAge

I’m not known for Internet fads. Everyday I recieve many emails along the lines of “Kevin Rudd has added you to his Facebook. Would you like to join?”

The answer is, of course, shit no. I would barely even have heard of FaceBook if it wasn’t for The Age - a quick Google search of their domain reveals 525 hits for “FaceBook”.

Are these Age journalists really that enthralled by a fairly popular social networking site that they deem it news 525 times? It is of no surprise to find that not one of these news stories was even of the slightest importance. No “Osama found in Facebook offices”, no “Facebook spills oil along Alaskan coast”, not even a “Facebook deems itself President For Life”.

So why the interest?

Any theories?

3 Comments

The Editor (Thursday 27 September 2007, 4:17 pm) #

It’s the internet so newspaper journalists are frightened, excited, confused, repelled from, and attracted to it, all at the same time.
Lazy Bum (Friday 28 September 2007, 6:16 pm) #

Check out this one:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=opera&rls=en&hs=QFq&q=site%3Anews.com.au+facebook&btnG=Search
Jangari (Sunday 30 September 2007, 11:12 am) #

I’d suggest it’s so the journalist can legitimately waste time on Facebook and call it research.