What Organizations I am Following on Facebook and Why

This is a late assignment..

Because of this class, I am now learning how to use Facebook as a business and news tool rather than as low level intelligence gathering about (stalking) personal friends. And that's definitely the more forward-thinking way of using it.

At first, I became rather upset by my disenchantment with Facebook. But I've also realized that Facebook has even more opportunities for me. Instead of using it as a personal microphone - I no longer feel the urge to share personal pictures and status messages into an impersonal feed which resembles Twitter - I'm learning how to use Facebook as a personal device for collecting information that extends beyond my immediate communities.

This is especially true if I'm putting myself into communities of writers'.

Here's the list of Nonfiction-related "Likes" I've made on Facebook:

1) National Geographic

-I previously expressed an appreciation for the magazine as something I grew up with, and how famous it is for publishing articles on science and world cultures. I'm particularly impressed with how National Geographic uses Facebook to throw out hooks for readers by posting links to their articles within the website.

2) The Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh

-I was told explicitly to subscribe to this account. However it has become interesting and valuable as a tool to discover literary events in the writing communities at my college and in Pittsburgh. I'll have to make better use of it somehow.

3) PostSecret

-This was Frank Warren's project to collect anonymous postcards of personal secrets and compile them into books (see www.postsecret.com). It's sickeningly intimate and interesting.

I used to follow the website religiously, like a Christian too, considering that it updates every Sunday. But now I can better access their upcoming events and activities through Facebook.

4)The Association of Writers and Writing Programs

-I subscribed to this because I was trying to look for a basic tool and basic collective of people trying to promote writers and writing. It boasts of a reputation for networking writers, and I'll try to pay attention to their feed of suggestions, if I might find some good ones.

5) Tin House

-A literary journal I read for a non-fiction class at Pitt. I particularly recall how Tin House was famed for organizing writing workshops and presenting new writers and poets in their magazine. Perhaps this would be a good literary journal to follow for a student like me.

6) Sampsonia Way Magazine

-This is a nonprofit online magazine sponsored by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh, a nonprofit organization that gives refuge to certain exiled writers. I also intern there. Honestly, though, I don't actually read the magazine as much as I should, although this Facebook account will make it more convenient to do so.

As with Twitter, I need to build my account with more sources like these..

I ought to continue finding and subscribing to more pages..