Online social networks

OK I am so definately of the wrong generation. I signed up for both Facebook and MySpace, and found no one on there that I knew (except of course for the people that I am taking this course with). I tried all kinds of searches – no luck.

Aside from that – both of these are very easy to use and set up.

I checked out a few of the listed sites and articles and would like to comment on them.

So far we have not seen many repurcussions from the passing of the Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006 in the USA- however I think it will end up directly affecting the social networking websites. It depends on how the advisory board interprets the act.

Second, I agree with the Meredith Farkas, author of Libraries in Social Networking Software. I don’t know if libraries belong here. I can see that they would like to (a market that is underdeveloped – young adults 16-25) but I would be interested to see statistics from those libraries that have set up a MySpace or FaceBook page for their libraries. It appears that most of the comments (from what I could see on their sites) are not from their targeted audience, but from the authors that they have featured. Therefore, it raises the question of  the chicken and the egg. You have to have the site if anyone is to come, but is it worth having someone monitor and run it if your audience isn’t there. Hmmm.