What a eye 'opener' Myspace and all of the other social networking places have been to me! While I was aware of Myspace, in all honesty I didn't realize there were others, AND even more surprising are the numbers of young people using these sites. Wow! 58 million on Myspace! Facebook has grown 300% since last July! I'm amazed!
After reading most of the suggested articles in the 'Discovery Exercises'.... I absolutely think it's critical that Libraries (and other businesses/organization/institutions), become apart of the cyber world. If they don't 'keep up' our youth and the rest of our world today will pass them by and find others that are more in tune with their methods of communication.
I was troubled by a few thoughts in the one of the articles I read. Those were the comments by David Lee King concerning Myspace. He mentioned that the Denver Public Library was listed as a 18 yr. old female... and suggested that they change to a musician in order to download music? I just can't support being 'devious' as he suggested, when I still have concerns about honesty on some of these networking sites. Does anyone know if there is a way a library can be listed as resource (or something else that is 'honest') without having to pretend to be an 18 yr old girl?
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