Investigative Exercise 8 - Current Awareness Post

Facebook Privacy & Identity - Exploring your digital self: Mario Rodriguez at TEDxStetsonU

The discussion about Facebook Privacy and Identiy by Mario Rodriguez was a fascinating video and talk to watch/listen to. With the rapid expansion of social media and sites like Facebook, people have taken to putting their whole lives onto these sites for everyone to see, every message/comment/post/photo is available for public display and as soon as it is placed on these sites it is no longer our property. The idea that we are monitored by our electronic footprint is fascinating, especially the early examples that were discussed about people being turned down jobs or being fired from their jobs for things they have posted onto Facebook or other social media sites. What you say and do online is not protected just because you are only sharing it with some of your friends and it is still interesting to see how this problem of digital privacy will evolve and be handled in the future.

Investigative Exercise 5 Social Networking

Facebook, Myspace and other social media sites are greatly important for libraries. With the development of Web 2.0 technologies, people have flocked to these sites to be able to create, share and link content with other people. It is estimated that there are 1.44 billion Facebook users across the globe. That is just one social media site. Libraries need to tap into these websites in order to connect with their users in order to promote themselves and their events, not only to people who are already members and users of the library but to those who are not yet users or members, to be able to draw them in using Facebook or other social media and gain access to these other people through promotion from the library itself but also from library clients who promote the site just by subscribing or ‘liking’ it on their own pages.