To Facebook or to not Facebook (or MySpace)

If you are trying to reach more teens, MySpace, done right, may be the way to go. It would be an online way to reach out to teens- who are constantly plugged in and online.

For Adults and for Childrens programming, a good website may be the way to go. It depends on the individual library's needs. If your adult community is a highly technical group, then you may want to add Facebook. It depends how much time you want to devote to keeping up the blog, wiki, website and social networking pages current and fresh looking. Although the technology out there is supposed to keep us in the now and cutting edge, it takes staff time and money to keep up-to-date.

This one is hardest for me to see how it works without actually having an account. I can understand that it could be good for keeping up professional contacts up, though there are other ways to do that as well. The video on this week's assignment page reminded me of six-degrees of Kevin Bacon. Social networking could help you contact someone you want to meet without having to ask personally everyone you know if they know person "X". I do like the idea around social networking, and the online world makes it easier on us passive folks. Unless you are one to crave person to person contact.