Less and less, blogs just make fun of small errors in mainstream media. But so often, mistakes like basing an entire trend on the phrase “more and more” makes it impossible to avoid.

So when we read, three times, that “more and more” journalists are using Facebook in the American Journalism Review, we had to embrace our inner Nelson and say, “Ha, ha.”

Anyway, more and more journalists are using Facebook, in part because Facebook rules and in part because it’s a really great way to find sources. In our experience, Facebook is the fastest way to get in touch with journalists whose email addresses aren’t public.

But frankly, this is old news. In college, we used Facebook to find sources for our school paper as soon as the site started.

The more interesting story is that more and more Facebook is a giant clusterfuck. Every journalist in New York is “friends” with one another. And that’s a problem if you have a scoop on say, NBC, and your profile reveals you have only one friend who works there.

We’re not recommending throwing away the baby with the bathwater, but for those who do want to give up the Web 2.0 sensation for the privacy violations, apparently quitting Facebook is easier now. Or you could just use a modicum of restraint on who you befriend on the site.