Week 2 - Social Networking

This week I checked out facebook, bebo and myspace. I am in a band so I already use a myspace page for this. I did go through and have a look at some of my favourite bands on myspace and have posted some images below from them. It's really great to be able to check out a bands music on myspace before you go out and buy their album or see their show. It's also a good way to keep in touch with friends and family because you can post pictures and videos on your myspace page. The lack of privacy associated with it bothers me a little but you can set up your page so that only your friends can see your profile which is good.



This is a picture from Jolie Holland's myspace page. She is one of my favourite musicians.

I am on facebook as well and I find this is a good way to keep in touch with friends and family overseas. It would also be a good way to advertise library events because you can set up an events page on facebook and then invite other members of facebook to your event.

I also had a look at bebo as well and checked out the acl bebo page. It seemed similar to myspace in a way except that it doesn't have a facility for playing bands music. I like how the blog part of bebo was on the main profile page similar to the comments section on myspace. Again the privacy aspect of bebo bothered me a bit.