Thursday, December 10, 2009

#13 My Space

Hello readers, I am by nature a person who prefers to avoid controversy, I always seek to find a balanced even-handed perspective and strike a consensus. But this week I have no choice but to weigh in to one of the great questions of our age: MySpace or Facebook? This post is part one: MySpace.
MySpace was before the advent of facebook the pre-eminent social networking website. It allows you to post some information about yourself, what you have been doing, what you are planning to do. You can also post some pictures, links to audio and video. It is in general a good way to advertise yourself, or your business, library etc. I feel that MySpace does lend itself in particular to use as a billboard for events. Our library and others do have a MySpace prescence, many targeted at the youth demographic in particular with library info mixed in with content about local up and coming bands and events. It has proven an effective package, but is it a match for facebook? Find out next post.

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