Are you also seeing this message on your Facebook account?:
Apply to be a beta tester and get the first look at upcoming Facebook products.
After clicking through, you’re presented with a page titled “Help us build the future of Facebook.” There’s some description about the “launch of a brand new product to the world” and how you can apply to be a beta tester.
Normally I’d ignore something like this, but what Facebook is proposing is too fascinating to pass up: a chance for my writing to be seen by “tens of millions of people — including job recruiters” as well as a visit to the Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto (where my awesome sister Blair lives).
Too good to be true? How about an attempt to exploit masses of struggling, web-savvy writers? Hmmm… [Read more...]
It doesn’t take much to see how shamefully little I’ve been posting here, and I want to address this because I feel many of us suffer from the same blog starvation-atrophy affliction.
Here’s the problem: we still think we’re in college English class. Yes,