I was encouraged to get a facebook account when I was on Strike. I didn't find it too useful at the time and discovered - it is nay impossible to delete a facebook account afterwards. So I deleted everything I had uploaded - and posted a message that I had "left facebook" but I still get the odd email from someone wanting to "friend" or advertise something even though it is several years since I logged into it. I guess I disliked how it just added event advertising clutter to my inbox.
I looked at the demographics of orkut and noticed there are not enough people in my age set using it to show up on the bar graph so perhaps it's a new trick few of us old dogs are learning.
OTOH I sometimes enjoy seeing the tweets that are embedded in some of the blogs I like to visit or news sites - they sort of remind me of that cute little "today's smile" joke box on the front page of the old globe and mail. What I find really lame are the twitter sites that people of importance have set up because it is the trendy thing to do but don't bother maintaining - or only tweet such safe things that you might as well wait for their annual newsletter. They tweet formal announcementish things that I would expect to find somewhere on their blog or website like "events" or "press releases"
Twitter seems to work best in very specific communities of interest - How could a library best use this form of communication? Maybe immediate things like "our photo copier is out of order - the closest one that works is in the Blah Library." or "will the person who spilled that latte all over the serials reading area table find somwhere else to study?" - okay maybe not that. ;-)
Oh yeah, that.
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