facebookworm: dispatches from a social networking junkie

by Alan C. Baird

During Facebook's early days, membership was limited to students, so a new Facebooker's initial impressions of social networking would have included discussions of keggers and panty raids. But after opening up to the general public in late 2006, the site finally began to reach critical mass. These days, most folks can easily reconnect with old friends, former colleagues and onetime classmates. The artificial barriers between celebrities and normal people are often lowered too, thanks to Facebook's granular privacy controls. In Alan C. Baird's latest book, " dispatches from a social networking junkie," he distills the essence of an egalitarian world currently evolving in cyberspace, using techniques ranging from wry humor to flash verité. [ creative nonfiction, web, internet, virtual communities.] Videos, samples + www.9TimeZones.com/fbworm.htm

108 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Alan is the Harvard Book Prize winner who authored "facebookworm" and coauthored a print/web/wap project entitled "9TimeZones.com," which was included in the Whitney Biennial. His work has appeared in a dozen-odd anthologies and may be found in various periodicals, including Playboy, PC, and Britain's Guardian and Screenwriter. His Screenwright(R) screenplay formatter won a $3,333 cash award from Sun Microsystems, and he's written screenplays that finished in the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals of various international competitions. Alan enjoys referring to himself in the third person, and was inordinately pleased when ABC-TV's "Max Headroom" series purchased his debut student film, widely hailed as "the most uncommercial piece of ____ in Michigan State's history." Born down east, he now lives just a stone's throw from Phoenix... which is fine and dandy, 'til the stones are thrown back.
CV: 9TimeZones.com/b
Film/TV: IMDb.com/name/nm6248253
Bibliography: Amazon.com/author/acb
Quotes: QuoteFancy.com/alan-c-baird-quotes
Draft obit: AlanCBaird.blogspot.com
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