Bruce Harley just brought an article by the same title as this blog entry to my attention . Check it out in today’s issue of the Chronicle of Higher Ed: http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=hkrt4tfrPjSnpSNWwVrRDqhJmp3gwmkD

–Pam

The short version: MySpace is by far the most popular with 81% of the the traffic share; Facebook comes in at #2 with 7.7%; and, Xanga is the 3rd most popular social networking service with 3.1% of the traffic.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-07-31-myspace-over_x.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/hotsites/2006-07-31-myspace-invaders_x.htm

And of particular interest to libraries, the article mentions that: “…the House late Monday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would keep libraries and schools from allowing children to access social networking sites, as well as chat rooms. It now goes to the Senate.”

–Pam

Reiss, Spencer (2006). His Space. Wired 14(7), available at: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/murdoch.html

–Pam

Libraries in Social Networking Software
http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2006/05/10/libraries-in-social-networking-software/
An excellent round-up of the discussion in libraryland about whether or not to establish a library presence in MySpace, FaceBook and other social networking sites – and how some libraries have used their presence there.

–Pam

This is a hilarious video from The Daily Show that explains social networking sites, namely MySpace. I was introduced to it by two librarians at the CARL conference. Here are two different locations for it, in case one link fails. Seriously, this is FUNNY and worth 5 minutes of your life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfm8IZTuPbE&search=comedy%20central
http://planetvids.com/html/Myspace-Trend-Report.html

–Pam