I have been a Facebook user for over two years. Although a class on social media interested me a great deal, I admittedly had a hard time “getting into” other forms of social media. As my time these days is fairly limited, I felt like I was on overload trying to keep up with everything. As I moved through the course, however, I found that I became more comfortable balancing everything. I actually grew to like Twitter as well; maybe because I personally tend to be brief when I speak the character limit felt comfortable to me. As I result of this course, I not only learned about the potential uses for various forms of social media, but also got comfortable using them myself.
I do believe that social media will play a large role in the future of the library profession. Whether or not Facebook and Twitter will be as popular five years from now as they are now remains to be seen. I do feel that social media has entrenched itself in our society, so if it’s not Facebook and Twitter it will be something else. (Google Plus? Maybe not)
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