Learning 2.0 Facebook

I have been using Facebook for about a year now. I have used it mostly for personal reasons. Some of my family members were using Facebook so I found it was a good way to share photos and keep them up to date on the activities of my kids. Then, it turned into a fun way to connect with people that I had lost touch with over the years. I now have "friends" in Facebook from college and even high school.

Many people in the library have Facebook pages and I enjoy seeing what everyone is up to each morning when I log in and read the latest feeds.

I have told students that I am in Facebook and they can contact through there but no one has taken me up on it. But, they do email me so once again I think it is because they want to be in their social world and when they need me, they will go where I am.

I like Facebook much better than Myspace because it is a cleaner (in appearance) interface than Myspace. I have gone to some Myspace pages and the background is so cluttered that I can't read the text on the page. Then, the music starts playing and I just have to exit out of the page.

I am a librarian after all so I do like the organization of Facebook over Myspace.

Learning 2.0 and Web 2.0

Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, where I work, is participating in a Learning 2.0 professional development exercise this summer. We are being asked to try some new Web 2.0 technologies and then Blog about them.

So this is my first post about the discovery exercise to watch a video on YouTube called "Web 2.0: the machine is us/ing us" You can view it here.

I love the video on YouTube. It really explains it so well.

I really love that I can create web content with little to know knowledge of programming, html... But, I have to admit, I do sometimes admit that I miss the days of letting the programming geniuses do it all. I would just tell them what I wanted and they would do it. It did not always look the way I wanted it to but at least I did not have to be the one to do it. Now that we are living in the Web 2.0 world, us non-programming people are being asked to do things ourselves. I will and really have already gotten over that but I just needed to get that off my chest.

OK, one more confession: new technology scares me to death. So, this web 2.0 stuff really does freak me out. Just when I think I have mastered something, there are 5o million new technologies, web 2.0 toys that I have to learn. My head is above water, barely. I just keep plugging away, trying to keep up.