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CBC Facebook fan page CBC News now has its own Facebook page, and you’re invited.

If you are on Facebook, just visit the CBC News Facebook page and click the button on the top right that says “Become a Fan” of CBC News.

According to Jon Dube, director of digital programming,

Doing so will add a link to the CBC News page to your Facebook profile, and let you participate in the conversations on the page and new features that we may add to it down the road.

Among other things, we hope you will use the page to post your suggestions for how we can improve CBC News, as well as to share and discuss interesting news stories you hear or watch on CBC or read on CBCNews.ca.

So far it’s mostly a headline distribution and discussion mechanism, but who knows what it will turn into?

(To my surprise, seven of the first 10 user comments on the announcement on the CBC News Editor’s Blog were pretty negative - to which I say, “what’s the harm?” Facebook is not exactly expensive, is it?)

I should point out that this is the officially-sanctioned CBC Facebook entity. A couple of weeks ago, Tod wrote about a different Facebook CBC fan page. That one is unofficial. This is the official one.

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One Response to “I’m your fan”

Kev says:

Considering their recent privacy-busting advertising initiatives, and the kiss of death that is a partnership with Microsoft these days, I can think of a few negatives.

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