Thing 5: Online Networks [Part 1]

Facebook

I originally singed up to Facebook in my first year of college to keep track of the friends I made. This quickly turned into online gaming with those friends.

Now I am mostly a re-poster, re-posting images, videos, music and articles for me to look at later. You will often find my page littered with posts about cats, books and manga & anime.

I debated with myself about using Facebook in a professional manner as up until now I have used it mostly for personal use.

I had to remind myself that I have used it professionally when I was admin of several groups and when I updated the Epic-Con like and event pages.

Epic-con was an annual Sci-fi, fantasy & anime convention run by the Omega Society, NUI Maynooth for charity. I was part of the Omega committee that ratified the first convention and during my time as Convention Director for Epic-con 5. The name was changed to Phenomocon for its final year.

I would have no problem updating a like page or event page for a library I work in, it would be similar enough to what I did for Epic-con. But if it would require that I had to post as myself I would probably make a professional account because my current account is set up for interaction in the convention and gaming communities perfect for those scenes but may be off putting to some.  

So for Thing 5, I joined the Rudai 23 Facebook group and liked a few more library pages, for this thing I seem to be more interactive on the library front with Twitter than Facebook. I think this is because I have been on Facebook so long it is hard to create new habits.

Find out about my Twitter experience in Part 2!

Part 5: 23 Things Course Rudaí 23.
Tasks Facebook: Join Rudai23 Facebook group and say hi, follow a Facebook page that you like
Tasks Twitter: Set up Twitter account, follow @rudai23, tweet with #rudai23, subscribe to a list