Last Wednesday, I made a snide remark about the 15-minute fame of "Pants on the Ground" as an update on Facebook. I make snide or silly remarks on Facebook all the time, no big deal.
At about the same time a reporter for the Patriot-News was given the assignment to write a story about Pants on the Ground. She reached out to friends and acquaintances about the song and to whether kids were adopting the chant, and it just so happened that one of her friends is also one of mine.
He gave her my information. She contacted me. She asked a few questions for the story she was writing. I answered them.
Saturday morning the story was in the front section of the Patriot.
I literally did nothing but come up with some half-clever comment on my Facebook account, and some less-clever-but-true responses to her questions, and now we're getting contacts from friends about the story. Just goes to show the power of using Facebook at a useful moment, even if by accident.
At about the same time a reporter for the Patriot-News was given the assignment to write a story about Pants on the Ground. She reached out to friends and acquaintances about the song and to whether kids were adopting the chant, and it just so happened that one of her friends is also one of mine.
He gave her my information. She contacted me. She asked a few questions for the story she was writing. I answered them.
Saturday morning the story was in the front section of the Patriot.
I literally did nothing but come up with some half-clever comment on my Facebook account, and some less-clever-but-true responses to her questions, and now we're getting contacts from friends about the story. Just goes to show the power of using Facebook at a useful moment, even if by accident.
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