Friday, October 19, 2007

the horror, the horror (thing #7)

If you've ever spent an afternoon in a public library, you've encountered them...

the Myspace undead...

shuffling from screen to screen - scavenging unused minutes from early departures; climbing over each other to claw at badly tiled profiles beaming virtual friends and celebrity/media carpet-bombing...

and then there appeared... a knight in blue and white :P

Its name was Facebook; and they looked, and they saw that it was good.

My technology is social networking - particularly Facebook.

Facebook is clean in design - its interfaces encourage networking along many lines (professional, interests/hobbies, schools, geography, looking for love, etc). But the applications and add-ons are where Facebook excels though.

Here's an example of librarian oriented groups that I discovered on google while briefly poking around...

http://www.5minlib.com/2015/02/from-ala-to-zuckerberg-librarian.html

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