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To All My Adoring Fans ...

By Robert J. Ambrogi

Truth is, I don't know whether I have any adoring fans -- or even merely lukewarm fans. Why don't I? Well, because I haven't set up one of those Facebook fan pages. If you're on Facebook, you know what I'm talking about, because you no doubt receive the same steady stream of invitations to become a fan of X lawyer or Y law firm. In many cases, I didn't even know these lawyers when I accepted their initial "friend" request and now they want me to declare myself their "fan." It appears I was so preoccupied with fending off fan requests the other day that I missed a discussion on Twitter of the relative merits of Facebook fan pages for lawyers. Of course, this being Twitter, the comments were cursory, but many seemed to say, in so many words, "What's the point?" Niki Black, the lawyer and blogger who kicked off the discussion, asked, "I don't see the benefit of fan pages. Am I alone?" She is not alone, judging by the comments, although some said they do see benefit in fan pages and Black reported that she heard from one lawyer who said she had recently signed up three...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on August 06, 2009 (boomark / email).