Social Networking

I am probably one of the very few people who does not have a twitter or Facebook account. Not that people haven't asked me to. I have a sister and friends who live in other provinces and countries who are facebook folk and want me to join -- I have always had a bit of a concern about the privacy piece, but a lot of it is that I just don't really want another place to go to connect with people. Dealing with my personal e-mail sometimes is bad enough.... However, I think I might have to succumb :-)

However, at the library I previously worked at, we did have a library Twitter account and it became quite popular. The important thing is to keep it active (but not too active so that it irritates). People actually retweeted tweets and contacted us through Twitter too. By the time I left, the library had about 500 followers -- granted a number were other libraries or organizations, but there were also a significant number of personal followers. I do feel that it can work quite well.

"One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world."

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992