{"id":225,"date":"2007-04-10T10:49:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T02:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/10\/another-look-at-facebook\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T10:49:23","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T02:49:23","slug":"another-look-at-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/10\/another-look-at-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Another look at Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around June last year, I set up a Facebook<\/a> account. Why? Because – like the twitter account<\/a> we set up in December – CW<\/a> was playing there and I wanted to be cool too. I didn’t think much more about it until two or three weeks back when someone found my profile and friended me.<\/p>\n

Facebook is like “grown up” MySpace<\/a>. Initially membership was restricted only to people with an .edu prefix in their email, as it was aimed at making sub networks based on school\/university populations. Now membership is open and you can join a regional network if you don’t want to \/can’t join an educational network. I suspect this changed last year when students who outgrew MySpace were transferring to Facebook, but some were excluded due to their email address.<\/p>\n

Three things I discovered delighted me:<\/p>\n

1) There are 8 groups on my local university network: Murdoch Ice Hockey Team<\/a> , Murdoch Ultimate<\/a> , R.U.M. (Rugby Union at Murdoch)<\/a> , The Iron Chefs of Murdoch<\/a> , The really really really ridiculously good looking people in murdoch<\/a> , ABA [aussie bogans annonymous]<\/a> , MMA<\/a> (Murdoch Malaysian Association) and the Wii Bowling 240+ club<\/a> . There are quite a few more which are global with the name “Murdoch” in them, including the Murdoch uni students past or present<\/a> (2 members), but most of them are protesting about media ownership byMr-ex-Aussie-Rupert.<\/p>\n

2) There are 67 groups with “library or librarian” in the title. Most are based on undergrad humour, eg. my goal in life is to bang in the library.<\/a> , but there is a smattering of vaguely serious and “friends of the library” type groups. Cruelly, the Im a librarian, but im not old, i dont own many cats, and work nights.<\/a> group appears to be a high school prank….otherwise I would have jumped on that bandwagon.<\/p>\n

3) It is easy-peasy to find people you already know using the invite<\/a> option. If you nominate a Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Gmail or MSN address book, it will check to see whether those people have Facebook pages. Then you can just tick the boxes and select “send”.<\/p>\n

I was really, really irritated by the difficulty of searching for groups or within your own network. A search for “University of Western Australia” on the Search Groups<\/a> page retrieved Murdoch University Alumni<\/a>. (63 members). A search for “murdoch alumni” did not. I tried to find out how many profiles were within the Murdoch network and I just couldn’t work out how to do it. Any one fare better than I did? Tell me the trick…please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Around June last year, I set up a Facebook account. Why? Because – like the twitter account we set up in December – CW was playing there and I wanted to be cool too. I didn’t think much more about it until two or three weeks back when someone found my profile and friended me.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-facebook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-3D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}