Wow, what a lot of things this week! Good thing I have done two of them already:
I used to use Yahoo! Messenger all the time several years back. What I loved best about it was the emoticon people, especially that grungy old guy that would yell "Oh, YEAH!" when you clicked on him. He was hilarious. My son loved the guy that puked.
Although I am not on GoodReads or LibraryThing, I have been on Shelfari for at least 2 years, maybe longer. It's very similar to the others and it is nice to have a virtual "shelf" of stuff that I have read. I usually don't post reviews, but I tag my favorites and rate the books as well.
As far as Facebook and Twitter are concerned, well... I have concerns about Facebook's security, and frankly, I'm pretty private. I will likely join twitter instead, but I'm trying to think of a cool theme or slogan for my account. Blank so far.
Need to look into the ALA thing some more. Maybe tomorrow.
I used to use Yahoo! Messenger all the time several years back. What I loved best about it was the emoticon people, especially that grungy old guy that would yell "Oh, YEAH!" when you clicked on him. He was hilarious. My son loved the guy that puked.
Although I am not on GoodReads or LibraryThing, I have been on Shelfari for at least 2 years, maybe longer. It's very similar to the others and it is nice to have a virtual "shelf" of stuff that I have read. I usually don't post reviews, but I tag my favorites and rate the books as well.
As far as Facebook and Twitter are concerned, well... I have concerns about Facebook's security, and frankly, I'm pretty private. I will likely join twitter instead, but I'm trying to think of a cool theme or slogan for my account. Blank so far.
Need to look into the ALA thing some more. Maybe tomorrow.
First, Thing 1 and Thing 2 are 2 of my favoritest Dr. Seuss characters! : ) I use Shelfari too - I think the 3 of them are very similar, but most of my friends are on GoodReads so that makes it the funnest for me. I use my Shelfari account for all the children's lit I read.
ReplyDeleteI understand your concerns about FB and privacy. What's great about it however, is that you can customize it so it's pretty water-tight. They don't seem to manage changes all that well however - I think that's the biggest complaint. That when they do make a change, the default is that you opt IN rather than OUT. But, changes to make things private are very easy. I think it's really interesting to think about libraries on FB too.