Facebook Pages and Twitter
Did you know that Facebook is considered the social media for "old people" (by old I mean people in their 30s and 40s), this of course is according to my twelve year old daughter. Young people are currently using Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, Kik and Music.ly for social media. As I explored some of the school library pages using Facebook, I was surprised to find that most pages were from other countries and they had been "abandoned" for quite some time (one or two years, to be exact). As an elementary school librarian I can see some advantages for having a library page on Facebook. I like that I am very familiar with Facebook, therefore, creating and managing a library page seems possible. Also, if what my daughter claims is true, then I can potentially use Facebook as a tool to attract parents to be more involved with our library program. The library page can be used to p...