Scott Rosenberg: Beware of Facebook

I learned a sobering lesson while marketing Final Jeopardy : It was far easier to attract a crowd on Facebook than on my own blog. Lots of journalism businesses have discovered the same thing. And now along comes Scott Rosenberg with a very good post on why they should watch out. In sum, Facebook’s a great place to create a community, but how is that community going to be used down the road by the people running Facebook? No one knows. Here’s Rosenberg’s analogy: You could argue that what news organizations are doing is just like telling your friends, ...ldquo;I can...rsquo;t invite you over for drinks because our place is such a mess. Let...rsquo;s meet at a bar!...rdquo; Maybe. Then again, it might be like saying, ...ldquo;We let our neighborhood g...