Myspace and Facebook are very popular among teenagers. These two social networking sites can become very addictive. Students can hardly wait to see what their friends have posted on each others sites. Most teenagers that I know use Myspace vs. email to communicate with each other.
Safety needs to be a NUMBER ONE priority when using a social networking site. Every user should be careful when setting up their personal profile. You should not publicly post any identifiers such as your full name, your school, email or street address or city.
I did explore a variety of online social networks. I liked the Denver Public Library Myspace site. If you would give teenagers an option to check out a Myspace library site or a basic library website, Myspace would probably get the most hits, even though you may have the same information on both sites. Myspace has a huge draw to the teenagers! Within this Denver Public Library Myspace site, you can see what activities are taking place, homework help, search for books, movies and music, use databases within the site and you can post to a blog.
If media centers want to stay connected with their students, we may need to utilize the Myspace site for our postings of school media center information.
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