Much to my young adult children's dismay, I now have a FaceBook page. I'm familiar with both MySpace and FaceBook because my children have shown me these sites since their development. I was a "Mom over shoulder" grounding my young teens for posting inappropriate messages and pictures. Many of the other parents never knew about all the juicy junk these middle-schoolers were generating.
Both children still maintain sites. My son is strictly a Facebook fan because he is in college. He did delete his account a few months back because he was tired of people creating false personas on the internet; he reinstated because friends were complaining they could no longer connect with him. We continue to have discussions about the inappropriate material that is posted on his site, mostly photos of underaged drinking. He insists a person can not attend an event these days without camera coverage.
My daughter prefers MySpace for the cool graphics and colors and frequently helps her friends improve their pages. She was disappointed I choose to do a Facebook for this reason.
As for my own page? I now have 2 friends and am fairly excited about that! I was
somewhat shocked to learn that 25% of Duluthians have Facebook accounts. I'd like to
add them all to my friends list. We will be exploring the possibility of a Facebook
page for the library. We are considering the pros and cons of each of these social networking sites and the discussions have been very interesting. I think it will boil down to which ones we feel most comfortable using and which ones will reach the most of our patrons. I admit we do need to move in this direction.
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