Comments on: Social Networking News Roundup

By: Maura Smale

Maura Smale — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:27:22 +0000

Thanks for your comments, Rob and Ameet. I’m familiar with Loopt and similar services, but for whatever reason I’ve always thought that they are more popular with us oldsters than with college students. But that could very well be because I don’t interact with any college students via social media.

Ditto Twitter, though I’ve seen conflicting reports on Twitter use among college students:

They don’t: http://subcatmarketing.com/2009/04/27/teens-and-college-students-ignoring-twitter/

They do: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/Twitter-and-status-updating/Part-1/Section-2.aspx?r=1

It’ll definitely be interesting to watch how use of these services evolves.

By: Ameet Doshi

Ameet Doshi — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:30:59 +0000

Of course, they could be heading for twitter too…

By: Ameet Doshi

Ameet Doshi — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:54:16 +0000

I recently read an article about location-aware social networks (such as Loopt). Perhaps this is the coming wave that librarians should be aware of?

http://www.wired.com/dualperspectives/article/news/2009/06/dp_web_wired0630

Ubiquitous Librarian has been investigating as well:

http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com/the_ubiquitous_librarian/webtech/

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:13:06 +0000

“Most Facebook users are older, study finds”

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/08/MNTS18KFB8.DTL&type=printable