#12 MyBook and FaceSpace?

I watch the teens in Teen Square play with their MySpace pages all the time....and yet before this exercise I had never been on MySpace or Facebook.

I really did try to experiment with these two social networking phenoms but I have to admit neither of them really captured my fancy. Overall, if I had to use one in my personal life, I would probably use Facebook because it seemed to have better privacy options and the layout was much more user friendly. I found MySpace very clunky and awkward to use...just way to much going on for me, I guess. I did a few searches in MySpace and checked out the page of award winning YA author John Green as well as the page for the Teen Librarians at Glendale's Main Library. In Facebook I looked up an old boyfriend and a few folks I went to high school with. I didn't contact anyone but I know where I would look if I wanted to get back in touch with some of those folks.

Anyway, this was an interesting learning exercise but I don't see myself using these in my own life. I do think it would be cool to have a library MySpace page for the teens to see what events we have coming up. City IS will probably allow that about the time I am ready to retire :)