Socializing...

This session was probably the easiest one for me so far. I joined Facebook about a year ago (due to the urging of my college daughter who insisted it would help us keep in touch). I have to admit it's kept me in contact with people from the past, cousins who I no longer see, etc., and it's been somewhat "fun." It truly amazes me to see so many people on Facebook! I did take a look at some of our neighboring library pages and, in comparison, we are doing a terrific job with our posts! Nice job to those posting to our TPPL FB! The last posting from the Palos Heights Public Library was in August! I like that we are placing photos of programs/events as it spices up the look of the Facebook page (Orland Public has daily posts, but the page itself looks boring). I'm happy to see we have 92 fans at this moment--and I am one of them. I was also familiar with MySpace, having had both my daughter and son with accounts (I myself don't feel a need for one). I was not surprised to read that Facebook has overpowered MySpace since neither my son nor daughter regularly use MySpace anymore. The LinkedIn network appears interesting and I'm wondering how useful it would be for our library "business." Does anyone here subscribe to it? Overall, I enjoyed learning a little more about social networking.