Friendface

Such a good show & their episode on social networking is excellent.

I do have a Facebook account, which is for personal use, as well as ones at ravelry & The Green House, which uses Ning - an excellent & easy tool for anyone to create their own social networking site. These are fun ways to keep in touch with others, as well as useful for keeping myself organized.

ravelry lets me easily keep track of my knitting projects past, present & future, yarn stash & has excellent forums & ways to interact with others. The creators are very responsive to their audience & this enables them to have a truly unique & high-quality product.

The Green House is less polished than the other two, but has a great user base & the creator has a good sense of humor & passion for the subject of living "green." It's an excellent place to ask questions & share your own experiences - the good, the bad & the ugly (seriously, there are some ugly chickens out there, people!).

I enjoy visiting these sites, but as I said before, it's all or nothing with me. My ravelry stats won't be updated for a month or two & then suddenly I upload a ton. My Facebook status will say I can't wait for Spring in the middle of June. What keeps me more engaged is being able to access these sites on my mobile device. Since getting it, I have been more apt to stay on top of Facebook & twitter, thanks to apps being available for both that enable me to check in on the go.

Have You Seen This? Thursday-ish

A cautionary tale.


Although, I don't think we should let the general public in on the fact that we are telepathic.

*Tap, Tap* Is This Thing On?

Has it really been a month since my last post? Well, that is actually perfectly apropos for me & the topic of social networking. See, I like to be social & all, but it is terribly difficult to get me to stay engaged in something once the newness has worn off. Hence the month-long absence. This is very similar to my Facebook & Ravelry habits, one week you can't get me off the things, the next I forget all about them. Same with twitter. Although with twitter I find I can get overwhelmed by the feeling that I need to constantly keep up with the people I follow & then it becomes a chore & why do I want that, so I've calmed down about that in recent months. I still feel that I have to scroll through pages & pages of Facebook each time I get sucked back into it, making sure I don't commit some horrible faux pas, like asking how someone's boyfriend is doing, before realizing they've changed their status to "single."

That being said, I think the library needs to join in the fray & get its "face" out there! It seems like there should be very little time & energy needed to get a page up on Facebook & update it occasionally with events & it would be one more place to put links to our podcasts (coming any day now, right?), photos & items of interest, such as Sirsi being down on the 2nd!

That's all I have to say about that.