We Like This: Ben Affleck Joins Facebook!

Actor uses site to showcase philanthropic work with the eastern Congo and highlight his lustrous career in Hollywood

By Rebecca Macatee Feb 22, 2012 10:34 PMTags
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Do you like Ben Affleck?

Now you can subscribe to his updates on Facebook! The 39-year-old actor and father of two (soon to be three!) joined the social-media sphere with a Facebook Timeline page showing his nearly three-decade acting career and philanthropic work in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

So just what is Affleck sharing with his extended network of friends?

No family snapshots just yet. But, he has included several touching photos of children benefited by the Eastern Congo Initiative, the U.S. based advocacy and grant-making initiative he founded in 2010 that's focused no working with and for the people of eastern Congo.

He's also included some of his movie milestones, like Gigli in 2003 (Bennifer, anyone?) and of course winning an Academy Award in 1998 for Best Writing – Screenplay with Matt Damon for Good Will Hunting.

Affleck's Facebook Timeline goes all the way back to 1972, when he was born in Boston.

Very cool, Ben—you'll have a million friends in no time.