Viva la Internet! I've spent a good chunk of time in the last couple weeks setting up and filling out my Facebook account.

Look me up. I'm at Thomas McAuley or if you have an account, you can also click here and get there directly.

For a while, I wasn't sure how effective Facebook could be as a marketing tool, so I just enjoyed it for its ability to connect me with old friends and folks around the world with similar interests.

Finding this out now may make me sound a little behind the times, but since I was a MySpace person for the last few years, I didn't so much resist making the switch as didn't think about it.

Come to think of it, I can't even recall what caused me to set up my Facebook account in the first place, but I'm glad I did. I've connected with a couple of people overseas who love English Premier League Football (Soccer) and I've joined some writing groups online. I've connected with a few old friends, even hitting the town with one old acquaintance when he made his way back from Monterrey, Mexico at the beginning of June (2008).

As far as marketing my writing, the jury is still out. I know that having another Thomas McAuley-specific page out there with links to this and my other sties can't do anything but raise my profile to the search engines.

I doubt if there is a relationship between my Facebook account and how much activity it has been getting, but I Googled "Thomas McAuley" and for the first time since its creation, this site comes up first! And that, I AM certain IS a good thing for marketing my writing.

If you are a member of the San Antonio Writers' Guild (www.sawritersguild.com) or just anyone interested in writing, email me and I can offer you some assistance on how to set up your Facebook account because if you're a MySpace user, you might not immediately know what to do, where to go, or what the site is even for.