Once again, welcome back to the most informative, groundbreaking and exciting blog you'll read (this minute!) We are discussing all the forms of social media and what works for us professionally and personally.
I have been on social
media for about a decade now. When my
children wanted Facebook pages, (Thank you, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg,) I made the
stipulation that I would create one and then they would have to be friends with
me. “No problem!” they said. Well, we are all still on Facebook and we are
all still friends; who knows what they have used “Messenger” for. I can’t catch them at everything but I can
let them know that I am there (insert creepy laugh.) I use Facebook for the library so I can post
upcoming events, or things we have done during the week.
I found Goodreads in
July, 2007, and would spend entire weekends on that website. I think one of my kids graduated HS and I
didn’t notice!! Hee, hee, just
kidding. Of course, after being an
elementary library specialist for almost ten years, I had A LOT of books to
enter. The great thing is, when parents
ask for book recommendations for their child or themselves, I send them to
Goodreads to look at my account. Goodreads
is a social cataloging website that was created by Otis and Elizabeth Chandler in
2006 and launched in January, 2007. In March
2013, Amazon bought Goodreads.
I found Pinterest soon after, that site is also
addicting. I knew I would do everything I pinned. So far, I have found recipes that I will
never make, crafts I will never do, and clothes that I can’t afford to buy. The one thing I found was my next tattoo, so
pretty. However, I love the website. I
have created a school board with great ideas, I might have even created a
couple! Pinterest was created in December
2009 by cofounders Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra, and was launched in 2010.
Clearly, my own
three children were the reason I ever entered the social media platform to
begin with. This includes the accounts I
have for Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter.
I have Snapchat so my kids could send me things, although I have never
sent a Snapchat of my own. I can
probably delete that account, as they aren’t using it much anymore. My Instagram account was the result of a
class I was taking. I am leery of putting
any student pictures online, even if there is no media restriction for that
child. Last week for my video post on my
blog, I spoke to each parent and got their consent. I hear that educators are using it, but I
know that they are teaching in the older grades. Which leaves me with Twitter. Again, I signed up with the help of my
daughter and I can see me using it in the library, I just have to remember to
do it!! I kept the same account and just
changed my name on Twitter to “MsLarrabee,” to make it more in line with school
and the book club. I am going to “tweet”
something this week!! I have added 70
new “following” links, which will hopefully prompt me to check it more often.
I have a LinkedIn
account and I have not mastered that site yet.
I spend more time inadvertently sending out invitations to people that I
don’t want to send them to (they shall remain nameless!) I keep trying to navigate the website because
the professional connections that can be made there are fantastic. Of course, I have the free account, maybe the
premium accounts are easier to use?
I have a Tumblr
account; I have no idea when I set it up and there is absolutely nothing on it. The scary thing is, that don’t surprise me. Maybe I set it up, and then found some other
form of social media better. It
certainly looks like it does everything, I wonder why I never went back? Ahhhh, the beauty of too many accounts! I think I should spend time using the ones I
have to see if they are a fit for me and the library, instead of signing up for
more accounts that I won’t use.
Thanks for coming back, see you next week! Happy Reading...
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