Facebook

I'm doing this before the "thing" actually became available because I am leaving on vacation and want to get this done before December 29th. I messed around a bit with facebook and I didn't find it that different from Myspace (which I have had an account for a couple years). In fact, Myspace seems to be a little more democratic. . .less exclusivity with the networks and such. From a personal point of view, social networking sites are fun/entertaining, but I could definitely live without them. Professionally, its useful tool to locate and network with fellow librarians(But to be honest I use it more for fun.) Of course, in the pursuit of library 2.0 some libraries have jumped on the social networking bandwagon. However, I think that they could do a really bad job with this. I wonder if students/users might find the library's presence on these sites to be a bit intrusive. Even if that's not a problem, a poorly done site could just look pathetic. If there isn't an attempt to socialize (ie. actually ask for feedback) with them then what's the point? People ages 12-25 aren't going to think your library is cool just because its on Facebook or Myspace. They certainly can tell a fake from the real thing!