Media Socialist is a blog about, and a testing ground for, social media online.

That means we're gluttons for blogs, social networks, social bookmarks, wikis, user-generated video, photo-sharing, and everything Web 2.0.

Should you build a Facebook Page or a Facebook Group?

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 by Griffin Hammond

Yesterday, Facebook blogged about the difference between Pages and Groups, two different ways beyond a personal profile to establish a presence and connect with people on Facebook. Profiles, Pages and Groups are visually almost identical (for now), but Facebook explains the distinction: Only the official representatives of a public figure, business ...

Tonight’s the night for Facebook usernames!

Friday, June 12th, 2009 by Griffin Hammond

In just over 4 hours, Facebook will allow users and Page admins to choose unique usernames! What this means, like on many other social media sites, is that users can obtain much more desirable, convenient, easy-to-remember URLs. Gone are the days of http://facebook.com/people/Chad_Brunswick/92219538. Hello http://facebook.com/chadwick! (Or whatever.) At 12:01 a.m. tonight, ...