Thing 10 Facebook
"Again, feel free to talk about all of this week’s things in one post, as they lend themselves to comparison and discussion. Do you think Facebook is useful or not, and why? If you use it, how do you use it, and what do you get out of it? If you don’t want to use it, why not?"
Yes I use Facebook, for a while on it now. I have friends and non-friends: people I really am friends with in the real world, and people I work with (though not other non-teaching members of staff as I think you have to be careful... for example I never would be friend with my boss or a close colleague!)... people I work with: either librarians at Oxford, or librarians I have never met outside the virtual world, for example the Librarian of Sydney Language Centre. As I said previously in another post, this is where you are most likely to get private vs professional conflicts I would think. It is scary somehow, but best is not to think too much about it, not moan about work, not write when drunk, things like that! But I am a human being and will defend my difference, my nationality (-ties?) my moods and my opinions (should they stay within the law of course). On facebook it is a mix of fun and work, but mostly fun I would think, and it is also great to see the kind of fun my colleagues have posting stuff, it helps you understand them more.
I have a page for the library, now more than 700 friends, happy about that :-)
I write more informally there than on our website, obviously! and even more informally than on the blog. But again, one has to be careful about the type of information one posts.
Yes I use Facebook, for a while on it now. I have friends and non-friends: people I really am friends with in the real world, and people I work with (though not other non-teaching members of staff as I think you have to be careful... for example I never would be friend with my boss or a close colleague!)... people I work with: either librarians at Oxford, or librarians I have never met outside the virtual world, for example the Librarian of Sydney Language Centre. As I said previously in another post, this is where you are most likely to get private vs professional conflicts I would think. It is scary somehow, but best is not to think too much about it, not moan about work, not write when drunk, things like that! But I am a human being and will defend my difference, my nationality (-ties?) my moods and my opinions (should they stay within the law of course). On facebook it is a mix of fun and work, but mostly fun I would think, and it is also great to see the kind of fun my colleagues have posting stuff, it helps you understand them more.
I have a page for the library, now more than 700 friends, happy about that :-)
I write more informally there than on our website, obviously! and even more informally than on the blog. But again, one has to be careful about the type of information one posts.
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