“You know, our group really needs a Facebook Page.”

I was starting to get tired of people telling me this.

“We’re just missing so many people.”

I work for a grassroots group in the labor movement. We’ve been around for decades and the members of our union see us, our newspaper, and our website as a really reliable source of info about what’s going on in their union. We’re feisty and we fight back.

“I tell you this is how we can reach the young people.”

We have almost ten thousand members. They joined at meetings, or over the phone, or when someone gave them our newspaper on the job.

“OK, we really need to get a Facebook page.”

Even my boss was starting to bother me about this, and he is as big a skeptic as I am.

“Hey everyone, we now have a Facebook page.”

After four months, we almost have 300 fans.

“You know, our group really needs a Facebook Page.”

People STILL keep telling me this. We have one now. Didn’t you notice?

What about you? Have you been able to use Facebook to organize? What works? Or what doesn’t?

Dan Hendo edits a workers’ newspaper, printed on paper, using real ink, in New York.

Radicals At Work is on Facebook.