Week Two: Online Communities

I decided to use the Online Community Facebook.  I chose this because I already have an account and I know how it works.  I like how it works because it is easy to control your privacy settings and most of my friends and family use it.  Actually, my mom just joined last week!  I use Facebook to communicate with friends.  I use status updates to let people know what I am up to.  I think it is fun to share pictures with people who live far away.  It helps me to feel up to date on everyone.  I think in the future, we will use this to communicate more and more.  It is so easy and instant.  I would like to see a library use it as a tool to communicate with its users.  A lot of other organizations use pages on Facebook to get out information, share upcoming events, and post pictures.  I think it would be a great tool to help people become informed about libraries.   If anyone would like to be friends with me on Facebook, send me a email.  I will "friend" you.  I am not searchable of facebook because my students are on facebook and I don't feel comfortable being cyber space friends with them :)!