Thing 18: Facebook

I have had a Facebook account for about two years. I have found it useful for finding old friends I have not heard from in years and discovering what they are doing now. With what people write on their walls I do not see it as a good tool for promoting your career. If I were some of the folks I know using Facebook, I would not want perspective employers to see what I had written on a bad day. I know that some employers do check Facebook at job interview time. Facebook is not appealing to me personally.

While I looked at several libraries’ Facebook pages, I would choose on other social networks to accomplish the same things. I would only use a Facebook presence to direct those interested to over places. It has only been in the last two months that our top administrator has done anything with Web 2.0. There is now a Facebook page for the college. So there is some merit to establishing at presence. I will be talking to colleagues about this soon.

MySpace is blocked at my library. I was unable to view the suggested MySpace Web sites except at home. That will not be of much help to me for creating a presence at work. I do not intend to create a MySpace page for myself and there is no possibility for the library. I will pursue a more focus social media network for both.

From all of the other wonderful resources in Web 2.0 being explored through the NEFLIN 23 Things, I think we will be able to find other, more acceptable resources to use for our library’s web presence than Facebook and MySpace.