Bebo, myspace and face book are somethings far away. I came to know facebook when one of my friends invited me one or two years ago. I came to know Bebo after I started working in library. In fact, I have no desire to be involved in anyone of them. Because of the Web 2.0 excercise, I had to look into them. I spent hours to get familiar with them and I registered with all of these sites. It became clear to me that these social networking sites allow you to write blogs, upload your own photos, slide shows(using http://www.slide.com/), videos; find and create friends and there are libraries of music and videos that one can access. Unfortunately, I am not interested in this kind of social networking as I feel privacy is more important and I do not need so-called friends in the virtual world. If I want my friends to know what's up to me, they can visit my blog and send me mail. Anyway, I have sent request to ACL to be added as a fan and put a link to ACL as part of the excercise.
I visited Hennipin County library facebook. They are having a great site that allows people to search their catalog, register as a fan, chat with a librarian and post something on the "wall". This kind of social networking works well to organisations like libraries, clubs and illness support groups. These organisations are facing public and certainly like to have as many members as possible.
Although I am conservative about social networking of this kind, the work this week has updated me with the most popular social networking sites, which are probably unknown to peers of my age.
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