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I\u00a0will admit that I use Facebook for a lot of things: messaging, stalking, and checking up on social activities. But, I\u2019ve found my ability\u00a0to collaborate with fellow MLIS students hampered by one thing: non-MLIS students. Yes, I respect everyone\u2019s opinions and value input\u2026but sometimes I really am only trying to connect and create with a certain group of people.<\/p>\n
In the Ellison and Weber presentation,<\/a> it is argued that SNS enable better remote collaboration. Let\u2019s focus on two areas that support collaboration: Context Awareness<\/em><\/strong> and Identifying Expertise<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Context Awareness<\/strong><\/p>\n When knowledge seeking (via Facebook posts and status updates), I always try to be as specific as possible. I\u2019m trying to provide context. If I were just querying SLAIS friends I could be very non-specific and probably still get some good results. But, by over contextualizing a question, my hope is that people who don\u2019t have useful or helpful information won\u2019t comment. It feels a bit ridiculous to preface a post by saying, \u201cHey those of you in iSchool\u2026\u201d or \u201cOther MLIS candidates\u2026,\u201d but this context usually stops other groups of people from commenting\u2026usually.<\/p>\n Identifying Expertise<\/strong><\/p>\n Something that frequently irks me is people not really knowing what I study in library school. My sister has a running joke that I am majoring in the Dewey Decimal System. I have a running joke that she\u2019s being a stupid-head and I\u2019m telling Mom. Something that bothers me more is people self-identifying as experts (in the field in which I study and work and see my future) and offering unsolicited advice and news.<\/p>\n I get a fair number of posts from well-meaning people about some break through they\u2019ve had about information or libraries. Sometimes these are real scholarly works, but quite frequently they are tiny tidbits of which I am already aware. Because, dear Facebook friend, my field really is a thing and I really do study it. I feel like my friends getting MBAs don\u2019t receive messages like this:<\/p>\n Yes I get that things like digital literacy, information-seeking, and intellectual freedom may be new and exciting terms for you to throw around. But believe me, I\u2019ve looked into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u00a0will admit that I use Facebook for a lot of things: messaging, stalking, and checking up on social activities. But, I\u2019ve found my ability\u00a0to collaborate with fellow MLIS students hampered by one thing: non-MLIS students. Yes, I respect everyone\u2019s opinions … Continue reading ![\"FB](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/paigelibr559\/files\/2015\/02\/FaceBook1.jpg\")
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