Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Thing #27 Facebook

I have had a facebook account for a while now. I think I first joined in college so I could keep in touch with the Forensics team and other students for class projects. There is always something new to do/learn about, all the different applications are a lot of fun. Facebook is indeed a great place to connect with people and share information. You can do a wide range of things on Facebook including: reconnect with old acquaintances, learn new things about people from what they post, and join groups that support just about any cause that there is.

I have joined many different facebook groups some for organizations, some for just fun, and more because they are a cause or something that I am interested in. I joined the Librarians and Facebook group because it looked to be pretty informative.

Our library could definitely use facebook to our advantage and it would likely allow us to better promote our services to students because they are very technologically apt but not prone to asking questions. Maybe being online would bring in more questions. Sadly though we would first need the approval of the college to start a facebook profile/group. So it is a good idea with a lot of potential but it is not quite yet a reality here.

Using a social networking site like facebook would allow libraries and patrons to interact more and make things like promoting new books or databases much easier.

Facebook is a great site because it can help you or your library make connections or keeps connections that are already there thus allowing communication to remain open.