Saturday, September 20, 2008

21 - The Coming of Age in my Time

Call me old-fashioned but I cannot understand why people feel they need to tell the world what they are thinking, doing etc etc.

I have been invited to be a 'friend' on Facebook previously but have never accepted the invitation. Nothing has changed after looking at these social sites. If they only want named 'friends' to see the information, what is wrong with a personal email. This can have a rebound effect as one member of family found out some information, concerning another member of family, that had been posted on a friend's facebook site that she passed onto me, before I had heard personally from the person concerned. I was not impressed!

Same goes for the Library Bebo site. What is the difference between that and having a good website which gives all the information.

1 comment:

NSL Training Support Team said...

The social network sites are the 'playgrounds' where people (especially the younger crowd) meet and socialise in the virtual world. A library Bebo site would have a link to the library's web site. These social sites won't be able to handle large and complex web sites such as our library web site