Week 3 - Social networking Facebook and Twitter

Set up a Facebook account but limited it by using an alias and will use it to connect with a friend in Vietnam for the purposes of this Learning 2.0 exercise. I can see that Facebook would be useful in remote situations where communications are restricted. I set up a Twitter account and think this is more immediate and I would be inclined to use Twitter more regularly - quick and simple ie.' just the facts ma'am'. Had a discussion with the Trainer at CL today and observed that websites would be the first port of call for me to check things of interest rather than a Facebook page eg. library catalogues, ABC topics or programmes. The fact that there is no mediation/authentication for many internet sites or social networking sites is problematic. If I can navigate to a site such as the ABC, then there is some satisfaction that the views and information have some authority as representing the organisation.