Back to Facebook

OK last time I really didn’t have much use for Facebook, and I have to say that I am getting some ribbing from my daughters and their friends for using it, but – after looking at what the kids (16-25) are doing with these sites, it is not too bad. I have updated my profile and have made some “friends”. It still seems that it takes a lot of time. However, it makes me wish that there was a way to send a private message or seperate a public wall board and a private board. I think that there might be, but haven’t found it. This age group seems to be using these spaces even more than email, and I can see that it works for them.  We heard a lot about people being contacted through this medium after the shootings at Virginia Tech. Therefore this might be the place to send notices instead of sending to email. One thing to look at/evaluate would be that this age group tends to think that Facebook/MySpace is THEIR area and they might find the use of it for commercial/academic notices an intrusion or offensive.