Facebook Might Not Get You A Job, But It's A Lifeline

Former Seattle P-I book critic John Douglas Marshall freely confesses to not “getting” Twitter. He doesn’t want a bajillion Facebook friends, and he’s pretty sure—after 13 months of looking—that the social network isn’t going to get him a job.

But what Facebook has done for this unemployed newspaper writer is send a lifeline to the real world.

“[I]n newsrooms… wise-ass comments, deadline dustups, and squawking radios and TV’s define the workplace,” he writes. At home, alone, it’s unsettling.

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