William Hague is an unlikely sort of technophile. Truth be told, for all his strengths
he simply does not look like a signed-up member of the Twitterati. His history-dripping, gold-covered office in King Charles Street is about as far away from the internet-enabled Google office as
you can get.
But the Foreign Secretary has just opened a Facebook profile – and garnered a thousand friends or so in a few days. Ironically, none of his staff can see his family snapshots, his “likes” or who he chooses to poke – as access to Facebook is limited on the Foreign Office IT network.
How this foray onto Facebook will end up remains to be seen. Ed Miliband’s Twitter experience was famously ill-fated. The Foreign Office, which recently revamped its website, has struggled with how to use the internet.
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