Today, BBC’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones, has an interesting piece on how busy networkers pay someone else up to £1,000 to provide interesting content to their profile. Cellan-Jones seems to question whether this defies the whole purpose of the direct access to people via Facebook.
Although I do get the point, I don’t think this is very different to the
real world were many people in high profile jobs have a PA to answer phone calls, emails etc.
I believe that a PA, also in the virtual world, may be able to provide a better answer, quicker, because they usually do not have to focus on a number of other tasks. So although I can understand Cellan-Jones’s desire for authenticity though I am not sure that this will always serve us best. Facebook maybe a tool for Joe Bloggs to get a little closer to the famous people while famous people will also have a chance to befriend people like Joe Bloggs with or without the help of a PA.