Here’s how it just happened to me: the same way it usually does, but tonight I noticed.
I went to my Home page on Facebook. I saw a News Feed from my old friend Michael “Jude” Christodal (Jude IS his middle name). It should also be said that Jude is a trusted and valued friend, who also has great taste generally, and specifically in music. Following the link, this is what I saw:
Jude Christodal became a fan of Oriana Fallaci.
The thumbnail was so small I thought it might be some hot new singer my friend is into. So I click on the link “Become a Fan.”
Next thing I know I’m reading about a celebrated Italian journalist:
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Fallaci began her journalistic career in her teens, becoming a special correspondent for the Italian paper Il mattino dell’Italia centrale in 1946.
Since 1967 she worked as a war correspondent, in Vietnam, for the Indo-Pakistani War, in the Middle East and in South America. For many years, Fallaci was a special correspondent for the political magazine L’Europeo and wrote for a number of leading newspapers and Epoca magazine. During the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre prior to the 1968 Summer Olympics, Fallaci was shot three times, dragged down stairs by her hair, and left for dead by Mexican forces. In the late 1970s, she had an affair with the subject of one of her interviews, Alexandros Panagoulis, who had been a solitary figure in the Greek resistance against the 1967 dictatorship. |
I’d never heard of her before. Already, my curiosity had been aroused. She sounded like a good person to know about. So I click to read more… Next thing you know, I’ve clicked “Become a Fan” and now someone else in my circle of Facebook Friends will see the news.
That, at one of it’s more granular and specific levels, is how social media is supposed to work.
But that’s only one example…
