MURKETING

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Ice cream man, originally uploaded by tibau1.

Caption says: “Stop me when i’m passing by.”

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Now you can be a “fan” of Consumed on Facebook. Why? And what next?

I’m not exactly a power-user of Facebook. I have an account, and I have a little more than 100 “friends” there, and I do check the news feed once a day or so. But I’m not very active.

Even so, when Facebook announced the feature where brands or whatever could set up a page for “fans,” I immediately thought: I’ll make one for Murketing! But every time I pondered it, I couldn’t quite figure out what the point would be — besides naked self-promotion, of course.

But last night, I abruptly created a page for Consumed, my Times Magazine column. Should you be into this sort of thing, you can now declare yourself a “fan” of the column. It’s here.

Beyond that the page is presently rather threadbare, since I knocked it together and alerted most of my Facebook friends to its existence in approximately three minutes. (So far about 50 have declared their fandom.) Yes, I realize it’s sort of stupid to create a Facebook page and then try to come up with an after-the-fact reason for it to exist.

And here’s my primary reason for this post: Now that I have this page, what might I do there? What would be interesting, useful, or valuable to readers? Any ideas?

My secondary reason for this post is to explain — in the interest of “transparency” — why I did this. If anyone’s interested, that’s after the jump. Read more