Module 1
by Ashley
Like a lot of us, I remember when Facebook required you to have a university email in order to sign up. I signed up as soon as I was given a school email address, and was surprised to learn that my American friends (I went to college in the States) used Myspace instead. I tried signing up for Myspace, but I just had such a hard time deciding who my top friends were!
I don’t use Facebook (or Myspace) anymore. I was never super keen on it, but I appreciated that it enabled me to contact almost all my friends at any given time. But over the years I’ve had the misfortune of seeing how much of a person’s online persona is carefully cultivated, and it’s just not something I’m interested in being a part of.
Social Media accounts I have:
– Twitter (I post sometimes and I swear I’m funny, but people never “favourite” my tweets. So … it’s mostly just disheartening)
– Instagram (kinda the same as twitter except I swear my selfies are flattering, and nobody seems to think so)
Social Media stuff I couldn’t care less about:
-Pintrest (I actually can’t believe this site caught on. I thought it was just for girls looking for wedding ideas that look just like everyone else’s wedding)
– LinkedIn (I already have a job and I haven’t done enough cool stuff, career-wise, to want to post it online)
– Vine (Is this still a thing?)
– Snapchat (Nothing bores me more than seeing weird videos of you doing boring things)
– Other Facebook-like websites (Nope. No thanks)
One last thing I should mention is that in grade 10 or so I had a blog online on a website called Dead Journal, which is like Live Journal, but for angsty teens.
Hi Ashley 🙂
I’m totally with you on the Social Media you couldn’t care less about! I had Pintrest for about 5 minutes, until I saw how cringe-worthy it was.
I don’t have a LinkedIn profile either for the same reason you mentioned. However, people have told me it’s great and that you can get head-hunted from it. I may explore it at the end of the year as I get close to finishing this Masters. But part of me worries it would do more harm than good!
Beth
I personally find LinkedIn to be more useful now. When it started, its affordances were few and I didn’t really need to share my vita with colleagues on the other side of the world. But now LinkedIn has discussion boards and since I am interested in librarian things that few others are interested in, it’s good to connect with my colleagues in other parts of the world for those (grey literature for example).