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Bloomberg: NYC Should Have a Facebook Page, Right? | The Atlantic Wire

Bloomberg: NYC Should Have a Facebook Page, Right? | The Atlantic Wire

Bloomberg: NYC Should Have a Facebook Page, Right?

By ERIK HAYDEN | February 03, 2011 10:06am

Everything else has an (ever-evolving) Facebook strategy, so why not New York City? Perhaps because mayor Bloomberg was a little skeptical of the social-networking juggernaut: "Where do they get the time to do it?" he asked in October. "Shouldn't, aren't--there have got to be other things in life to do." Skip ahead a couple months and it seems that the city will potentially be giving Facebook another go.

Rather than simply meeting with a few social media consultants to discuss strategy, he went to the Zuck himself. Scheduled after the Facebook founder's savvy PR appearance on SNL, the mayor