Bebo, Facebook, Myspace etc

Looks like we are into week two of my blogging experience!

I've been asked to write a bit about the worlds social networking sites, so I've decided to write about Twitter and Facebook.

It seems that twitter is growing in popularity across New Zealand. My followers have dramatically increased over the past few months, from international followers to businesses and locals. It seems that twitter has less barriers to entry, everyone seems happy to connect and share. I love the option to search using key words and find everyone’s quirky one-liners about a topic.

Twitter seems to be a lot less cluttered, it seems to provide people with an option to blaah, it's the psychologist of the internet world, listening to all and everyone's issues and personalities.

The connectivity of twitter is amazing, it always surprises me that twitter is not a website but a tool that people can connect with, via an iphone at a train station, while messaging on facebook or sending a direct post.

... a big tick for me.

Facebook is a monster, so many applications from event listings, fan pages, personal information, my favourite movies, people changing relationship status... "it's complicated".

There is a fear on facebook about people's privacy.. hence the nick name and well known brand stalkbook. What are facebook, it's

Facebook is a very cleaver, human natured, physiological mechanism. Humans want to feel connected, have a sense of place and an opportunity share and understand. Facebook provides, what I think, is an artificial world of connectivity.

Despite it's short comings it's a great tool for re-connecting with friends and families.

So how can our Libraries benefit from social networks? in the next blog...

Summer in Auckland

It seems only yesterday, I was sitting at the beach in little Oneroa, with my friends Pete and Jennie, enjoying the hot sun, swimming in the ocean and avoiding sun burn. Can you believe it's almost February, i feel like summer is slipping away... got to make the most of it.